Etymology

xenelasia

xen·e·las·ia
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Today it means: Synonym of xenelasy (“the practice of expelling foreigners in Doric Crete and Lacedaemonia”). Full definition →

Ancient Greek ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ“expulsion of foreigners”
  2. English todayxenelasia

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (xenēlăsĭ́ā, “expulsion of foreigners”); see further at xenelasy.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ all →

xenelasy

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