Erfindung

Japanese: Erfindung
Erfindung

…From this, in Japan, it came to mean a remarkable ability to think and understand, that is, to be clever. The Latin word inventio, which is the origin of the English and French word invention, originally meant that an idea or something came into one's mind or was expressed, and the German word Erfindung means to find something. In this way, invention and discovery (the original English meaning is to remove the cover) were used synonymously in the past and were not distinguished from each other. …

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

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Japanese:

…そこから日本では考え,悟る心の働きがめざましいこと,すなわち賢いことをも指すようになった。 英語,フランス語の〈invention〉の語源であるラテン語のinventioは,本来,ある考えなどが心の中にやって来るとか発現するという意,またドイツ語の〈Erfindung〉は見つけ出す意に基づいている。 このように発明と発見discovery(英語の原義は〈覆いを取ること〉)は,古くは同意語として用いられ,区別されていなかった。…

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