Etymology

-lagnia

Today it means: sexual predilection; paraphilia Full definition →

Ancient Greek λαγνεία
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromλαγνεία“sexual intercourse; lasciviousness”
  2. English today-lagnia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λαγνεία (lagneía, “sexual intercourse; lasciviousness”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekλαγνεία all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.