Etymology

phillumeny

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Today it means: The hobby of collecting matchbox labels and other match-related items Full definition →

Latin lumen
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlumen“light”
  2. English todayphillumeny

From phil- + Latin lumen (“light”) + -y.

Words from the same roots

Latinlumen all →

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