Etymology

erotophonophilia

Today it means: lust murder Full definition →

Ancient Greek φόνος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφόνος“murder”
  2. English todayerotophonophilia

From eroto- (“love”) + Ancient Greek φόνος (phónos, “murder”) + -philia.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφόνος all →

phonomania

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.