hierophany

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἱερός“sacred, holy sign”
2. French · borrowed fromhiérophanie
3. English todayhierophany

Borrowed from French hiérophanie, as used by Romanian religious historian and philosopher Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) in his book The Sacred and the Profane (1959; translated into English from an unpublished French original), from Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy sign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “show, appear”).

Words from the same roots