Hermetic
Hermetically is an adjective or adverb meaning " air tight", " impenetrable ".
It is used for
- Technical method of sealing ( cf. hermetically sealed),
- A closure provided with such a hermetically closed system,
- Derived from it in a figurative sense, eg for boiler police or military hermetic closures of areas or buildings
- Occult, locked, inaccessible teachings, see hermetic
- A literary direction, see Hermeticism ( literature)
- Education language: ambiguous, dark ( in terms of understanding ); a mysterious expression, preferring
Word origin
Hermetically is a detectable since the 16th century in the German onomastic formation after Hermes Trismegistus (Greek Ἑρμῆς Τρισμέγιστος, " triple greatest Hermes " ), the legendary author of the Hermetic writings and father of alchemy. It represents a syncretic fusion of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth
For the purposes of Hermeticism as a secret doctrine is hermetically directly back to Hermes Trismegistus as the alleged author. In the more general sense of seclusion, it is borrowed from neo-classical Latin hermetice, which in turn is due to the neoclassical sigillum Hermetis ( " Seal of Hermes "); this is supposed to have glass tubes sealed airtight.