Etymology

-orama

Today it means: Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ ← Proto-Indo-European *wer-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wer-
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromὅρᾱμᾰ“sight”, “spectacle”
  3. English today-orama

Back-formation from panorama and cyclorama (which are modern coinages, not Greek words), and thus from Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “sight”, “spectacle”), in turn evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *wer-, meaning to perceive or look out for.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekὅρᾱμᾰ all →

panorama-rama

Proto-Indo-European*wer- all →

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