The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλατρεία
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβασιλ(εύς)“king”
- English todaybasilolatry
Ancient Greek βασιλ(εύς) (basil(eús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía), latreia, “worship”); compare basileiolatry, basileolatry, basilic, and basilisk
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλατρεία all →
basileiolatrybasileolatryepiscopolatrylatria-latry
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.