a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict · a surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Benedict
köken: From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin Benedictus, from benedictus (“blessed; well spoken of”), from Latin benedicō. Cf. benoît. Compare Occitan Beneset, Catalan Benet, Italian Benedetto, Spanish Benito, Portuguese Bento.
to be self-righteous; to be stubborn; to be inflexible
köken: In the hangul script, first attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 고디〮식다〮 (Yale: kwòtí-sìktá). The verb was originally a phrase involving the adverb 고디〮 (Yale: kwòtí) "in a straight way; righteously" and Old Korean 爲只 (*SIk-, “to act”), thus "to act righteously". Early Hangul texts preserve this positive meaning. However, by the late sixteenth century, the verb had…