Words for Week 12
| psephology < Greek psephos "pebble" used in voting: "the study of voting" |
| algometer < Greek algos "pain" + metron "measure", "instrument for measuring": "instrument for measuring pain" |
| etiology < Greek aitia "cause": "the study of causes", "the cause of a disease" |
| xenobiology < Greek xenos "stranger", "guest/host" "alien" + bios "life": "the study of possible alien life" |
| stichometry < Greek stichos "line" (line of verse): "division into lines" |
| ichthymythia < Greek ichthus "fish" + muthos "word", "story": "the telling of fish stories" |
| stichomythia < Greek stichos "line" (line of verse) + muthos "word", "story": "line by line dialogue in Greek plays" |
| glossolalia < Greek glossa "tongue" + lalein "to babble": "speaking in tongues" |
| metic < Greek metoikos "resident alien" < meta "with" + oikos "house" "one dwelling": "resident alien" |
| scholology < Greek schole "leisure": "the study of leisure" |
| cynophobia < Greek kuon, kun- "dog" + phobia "fear": "fear of dogs" |
| cacoethes < Greek kakos "bad" + ethos "custom": "a bad habit" |
Acronym "a word formed by combining initial letters" < Greek akros "topmost" + -onym (cf. onoma) "name" (for example):
NIMBY
DINK
NOAA
AIDS
PETA
RICO
MADD
NATO
POSSLQ
SNAG
OPEC
hoi polloi "the many", "the masses" < Greek oi( polloi/