Etymology

heteroporn

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Today it means: Pornography depicting heterosexual sex. Full definition →

English porn ← French pornographie ← Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sḿ̥teros
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hə́teros
  4. Ancient Greekἕτερος (héteros)
  5. Englishhetero-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*perh₂-
  7. Proto-Hellenic*pórnē
  8. Ancient Greekπόρνη (pórnē)
  9. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  10. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  11. Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
  12. Ancient Greekπορνογράφος (pornográphos)
  13. Frenchpornographie
  14. Englishpornographyclip.
  15. Englishporn
  16. English todayheteroporn

From hetero- + porn.

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