- ideal (adj.)
[ideal 词源字典]
- early 15c., "pertaining to an archetype or model," from Late Latin idealis "existing in idea," from Latin idea in the Platonic sense (see idea). Sense of "perfect" first recorded 1610s.[ideal etymology, ideal origin, 英语词源]
- ideal (n.)
- "perfect person or thing," 1796, in a translation of Kant, from ideal (adj.).