sorcerer: [16] A sorcerer is etymologically a drawer of ‘lots’ – for the word comes ultimately from Latin sors ‘lot’ (source also of English sort). The plural sortēs was used for the ‘responses made by oracles’, and this formed the basis of the Vulgar Latin noun *sortārius ‘priest of the oracle’, hence ‘caster of spells’. It passed into English via Old French sorcier as sorser, which was later extended to sorcerer. => sort
sorcerer (n.)
early 15c., "conjurer of evil spirits," displacing earlier sorcer (late 14c.), from Old French sorcier, from Medieval Latin sortarius "teller of fortunes by lot; sorcerer" (also source of Spanish sortero, Italian sortiere-; see sorcery). With superfluous -er, as in poulterer, upholsterer; perhaps the modern form of the word is back-formed from sorcery. Sorcerer's apprentice translates l'apprenti sorcier, title of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas (1897) based on a Goethe ballad ("Der Zauberlehrling," 1797), but the common figurative use of the term (1952) comes after Disney's "Fantasia" (1940).
实用例句
1. The sorcerer held the knight in throlldom.
那巫师置那武士于奴隶地位.
来自辞典例句
2. The sorcerer enchanted the beautiful princess.
巫师使漂亮的公主中了魔法.
来自辞典例句
3. I wish to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world!
我要成为世界上法力最强的巫师!
来自电影对白
4. Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!
阿不思·邓不利多才是世界上最伟大的魔法师!
来自电影对白
5. The Cockroach, is me, changed from the spell of a sorcerer.
