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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ-der. Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. English -ia English -misia From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).
Meanings
- (morpheme, rare) Hatred; dislike; aversion.
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Deriveds
Islamisia · religiomisia · automisia