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pneuma
[ noo-muh, nyoo- ]
noun
- the vital spirit; the soul.
- Theology. the Spirit of God; the Holy Ghost.
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Origin of pneuma1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pneuma1
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So the Greek word pneuma, also translated “spirit,” means precisely the same thing.
More than fifteen centuries elapsed before this pneuma—oxygen—was discovered by Lavoisier.
Aer may be explained, oti airei ta apo tes ges; or, oti aei rei; or, oti pneuma ex autou ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai).
The pneuma and the juice concentrate the power of the plant below so that it becomes denser.
He is a man, but a spiritual man, one in whom spirit or pneuma was the essential principle, so that he was spirit as well as man.
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