The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδάκρυ“tear”
- English todaydacryphilia
From Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru, “tear”) and φίλος (phílos, “loving”) (or dacry- + -philia).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδάκρυ all →
dacryo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.