Etymology

coprophenomenon

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Today it means: Any psychopathological phenomenon (in particular an automatic behaviour or preoccupation) that involves obscenity or faeces, such as coprolalia, copropraxia, coprophilia and so forth. Full definition →

English phenomenon ← Late Latin phaenomenon ← Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱókʷr̥
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱókʷ-ro-s
  4. Ancient Greekκόπρος (kópros)
  5. Englishcopro-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  8. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  9. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  10. Ancient Greekφαινόμενον (phainómenon)
  11. Late Latinphaenomenon
  12. Englishphenomenon
  13. English todaycoprophenomenon

From copro- + phenomenon.

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