cherub

Significado (Inglês)

1. A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
2. A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
3. In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
4. A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

Sinônimos

angel

👼

seraph

deity

deva

divinity

god

goddess

miracle worker

gods disguised as children

children parading as cherubs

angelology

diving being

cherubim

Hifenizado como

che‧rub

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: cherub

Herdado de inglês arcaico: cerubin

Cognato com hebraico: כְּרוּבִים

Cognato com francês: chérubin

Cognato com italiano: cherubino

Cognato com Old Spanish: cherubin

Cognato com espanhol: querubín

Cognato com galego: querubín

Cognato com português: querubim

In summary

From Middle English cherub, cherube, cherubin, cherubine, cherubym, cherubyn, cherybin, gerubin, jerubin (“angel of the second highest order; depiction of such an angel”), from Old English cerubin, cerubim, ceruphin, cherubin, from Latin cherūbīn, cherūbīm, from Ancient Greek χερουβίν (kheroubín), χερουβείν (kheroubeín), χερουβίμ (kheroubím), from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím); further etymology uncertain.
The English and Middle English word cherub(e) is derived from Latin cherub (“cherub”) (the singular form of cherūbīm, cherūbīn), from Ancient Greek χερούβ (kheroúb), ultimately from Hebrew כְּרוּב (kerúv). Because it was not always clear from Bible passages whether a single being or group of beings was being referred to, cherubin was used both as a singular word (plural cherubins) and plural word up to the 18th century. However, in Bible translations particularly from the 16th century onward cherub began to be favoured as the singular form, and from the 17th century cherubim as the plural form (influenced by Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím)).
The English word is cognate with French chérubin, Italian cherubino, Old Spanish cherubin (modern Spanish querubín), Galician querubín, Portuguese querubim.