The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδῆμος“people”
- English todaydemonym
From demo- + -onym, from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). Possibly revived in 1997 by Paul Dickson of Merriam-Webster.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδῆμος all →
demosdemondemographydemedemocidedemarchdemophiledemospongedemoticslaocracy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.