gymnosophist
英 [dʒɪm'nɒsəfɪst]
- n. 裸体主义者；秘密信仰的信奉者
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.