Revolutio

Japanese: revolutio
Revolutio

…The word revolution appears in the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, where the change of royal lineage due to the renewal of the Mandate of Heaven was called the Yixing Revolution. Today, the word is used as a translation of European words with social or political meanings. The Latin word revolutio originally meant rotation, and the English word revolution, derived from it, originally meant the rotation or movement of celestial bodies. It was in the 17th century that the word appeared as a political term, but its figurative meaning was close to the original meaning of the word, and meant the return of politics to a certain previously established order. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "revolutio" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…革命という言葉は,古代中国の《易経》に見え,天命があらたまって王統が交替することを易姓革命といった。今日ではこの語は,ヨーロッパ諸語の社会的・政治的意味での言葉の訳語として用いられる。ラテン語のレウォルティオrevolutioは本来回転を意味し,それに由来するたとえば英語のrevolutionは,もとは回転ないし天体の運行を意味した。この語が政治的用語として登場するのは17世紀のことであるが,その比喩的な意味はこの言葉のもともとの意味に近く,政治が以前確立されたある秩序に回帰することを意味した。…

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