self

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
2. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
3. An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
5. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
6. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
7. Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

Pron

1. (obsolete, rare) Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
2. (humorous) Myself.

Verb

1. To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
2. To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.

Adj

1. Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
2. (obsolete) Same, identical.
3. (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
4. Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

Concepts

même

soi-même

moi

soi

le moi

égo

autodétermination

l’égo

auto

🚗

Opposé de

nonself

Synonymes

oneself

ego

own

person

🧑‍🦱

identity

same

himself

individual

itself

herself

alone

by oneself

body

personality

identical

ourselves

I

myself

nature

proper

self-interest

soul

one’s self

just

magnetism

in-person

ass

🍑

nothing

face

only

even

character

auto

personal

private

not adapted

reflexive

atman

self-confidence

selfhood

not different

selfish

self same

selves

sen

separate

not other than

subjectivity

themselves

voluntary

Traductions

zelf

selbst

Selbst

Ich

kendi

stesso

mismo

yo

io

xwe

vanzelf

öz

eu

ذات

ίδιος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɛlf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: self

Hérité de ancien anglais: self

Appartenant à gotique: 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰

Appartenant à allemand: selbst

Appartenant à néerlandais: zelf

In summary

From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba), German selbst and Dutch zelf.