androides

androides

1. Dated form of android.
   • 1837, John Lauris Blake, The parlor book, page 21:

     Hence the construction of an androides, in such a manner as to imitate any of these motions with exactness, is justly considered as one of the highest.

androides c sg

1. genitive singular indefinite of androide

From Ancient Greek ἀνδροειδής (androeidḗs), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “shaped”). Initially used to describe legendary human-shaped devices such as metallic talking heads alleged to have been made by wise scholars such as Albertus Magnus or Roger Bacon.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /an.droˈiː.deːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.droˈi.des/,

androīdēs m or f (genitive androīdis); third declension

1. (New Latin) android
   • 1678 [1631], Jacques Gaffarel, Curiositez Inouyes: Hoc est, Curiositates Inauditae de Figuris Persarum Talismanicis, Horoscopo Patriarcharum et Characteribus Coelestibus, translation of Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans, horoscope des patriarches, et lecture des estoilles^[1] (in French), page 153:

     Eo enim in capite de imaginibus seu statuis loquentibus duntaxat loquitur, qualem ferunt, falsò tamen, Alberti Magni Androidem fuisse

     For in that chapter he speaks only of talking figures or statues, of such kind as they report (although falsely) the Android of Albertus Magnus to have been

   • 1715, Daniel Dost, Georg Christian Wagner, Eruditos, Spirituum Familiarium Usu Suspectos Dissertatione Literario-Critica Percensuerunt, Leipzig, page 7:

     ALBERTVS M. Ratisbonensium ille Episcopus & Germaniae nostrae olim decus. Hic quoque niger est passim apud daemonographos magiae vetitae suspicione, quod Androidem seu imaginem aeneam ita fabricasse dicatur, ut loqui, et ad quaesita respondere potuerit. [...] Alphonsus Tostatus Avilensis Episcopus d) Albertum M. perhibet Androidem suam Ita confecisse...

     Albertus M. bishop of Regensburg and once the glory of our Germany. He also is black among demonologers everywhere by suspicion of forbidden magic, because he is said to have made an android, or bronze figure, that could speak and respond to questions. Alphonsus Tostatus Bishop of Ávila asserts that Albertus M. made his android in such a way...

   • 1750, Johann Nicolaus Frobes, Historica et dogmatica ad mathesin introductio, page 42:

     Quam equidem propter causam abesse vix poterat, quin GERBERTI characteres numerorum et figurae geometricae, quasi signa magica, ALBERTI MAGNI, ROGERII BACONIS atque AGRIPPAE androides sive homines artificiosi, atque specula mirifica, nec non 10. REGIOMONTANI aquila & musca ferrea, quasi machinae diabolicae aut magicae; GALILAEI denique & IORDANI BRVNI de mirabili fixarum quasi totidem solium absque circuitu persistentium, nec non de planetarum, quasi totidem terrarum coelestium atque inhabitatarum, multitudine dogmata, tanquam pessima hominum sine deo viventium deliramenta, tantum non ab omnibus perstringerentur, damnarentur.

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   • 1856, “Dissertatio de Animabus Brutorum.”, in Elementa psychologiæ ad usum alumnorum seminarii Sylvæ-Ducensis, page 115:

     Objectio. Albertus Magnus androidem confecisse legitur, quae extraneo pulsanti cellulae januam aperiret, atque, eidem reverentia praevie exhibita, recederet.

     Objection. Albertus Magnus is said to have created an android, which would open the door of the room to a knocking stranger, and, having previously exhibited respect to him, would withdraw.

   • 1856, “Dissertatio de Animabus Brutorum.”, in Elementa psychologiæ ad usum alumnorum seminarii Sylvæ-Ducensis, page 123:

     Quibus argumentis probatur, belluas non esse automata inanimata? Quare bruta operari dici nequeunt ad instar androidum ab hominibus confectarum?

     With which arguments is it proved, that beasts are not inanimate automatons? Why cannot irrational animals be said to function after the fashion of androids made by men?

Third-declension noun.

• → English: android
• → German: Android

androides

1. plural of androide

androides m pl

1. plural of androide