Words for Week 11
| oenopole "wineseller" < Greek oinopoles < oinos "wine" + polein "to sell" |
| ichthyopole "fish monger" < Greek ichthys + pole |
| sycophant "self-seeking flatterer, toady, lick-spittle" < Greek sukophantes "informer"< sukon "fig" + phainein "to show" |
| epinician < "celebrating victory" < Greek epi "upon" + nike "victory" [as in Pindar's epinician odes] |
| anthropophage "cannibal" < Greek anthropos "human being" [of obscure origin, perhaps from *ner + ops ("face, eyes"), "having human eyes") |
| mimocracy "rule by imitators or actors" < Greek mimos "imitator" + krateia "power" |
| philander, a traditional literary name for a lover, though from the Greek philandros meaning "loving one's husband" the word has come to mean "to stray in matters of the heart, to cheat on one's wife" |
| phonolite "clinkstone" < Greek phone "voice, sound" + lithos "stone", so named because it clinks when struck |
| bibliotics "the examination of written documents to determine their authenticity" < Greek biblion "book" [originally a diminutive of biblos or bublos, "papyrus scroll" from Bublos, the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece. |
| scholology "the study of leisure" < Greek schole "leisure" + -logy < logos "word, reason" |
| axiology "the study of values and value judgments" < Greek axios "worthy" |
| pandaemonium "a wild, chaotic, and noisy place" < Pandaemonium, the capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost |
| scopophilia "fondness for looking" i.e. voyeurism [Peeping -Tomism] |
| necropolis "city of the dead" |
| cynophobia "fear of dogs" < kuwn, kun- "dog" |