The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄδοξος“obscure, ignoble”
- New Latin · derived fromadoxus“absurd, paradoxical”
- English todayadoxograph
From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.
Words from the same roots
New Latinadoxus all →
adoxography
Ancient Greekἄδοξος all →
adoxography
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.