alchemy

Signification

1. The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
2. The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
3. (slang) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈælkəmi/

Étymologie

From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia.

Phrases

Having heard that , the boy became even more interested in alchemy .

Après avoir entendu cela, le garçon s'est encore plus intéressé par l'alchimie.