gymnosophist
英 [dʒɪm'nɒsəfɪst]
英文词源
- gymnosophist (n.)
- c. 1400, from Greek gymnosophistai "the naked philosophers," from gymnos "naked" (see naked) + sophistes "wise man" (see sophist). Ancient Hindu holy men whose self-denial extended to clothes; they were known to the later Greeks through the reports of Alexander the Great's soldiers.
