copro-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Excrement; dung:
粪便；粪：
coprolite.
粪化石
语源
- From Greek kopros [dung] * see kek w-
源自 希腊语 kopros [粪] *参见 kek w-
copro- or copr-
combining form (before a vowel)
indicating dung or obscenity
⇒
coprology
Origin
from Greek kopros dungcopro-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “dung,” used in the formation of compound words:
coprophagous.
Also, especially before a vowel, copr-.
Origin
< Greek kopro-, combining form of kópros; cognate with Sanskrit śakrt
Related Words
- copr-
- coprolalia
- coprolite
- coprology
- coprophagous
- coprophilia
copro-a prefix meaning 'dung' or 'excrement', as in coprophobia.
[combining form of Greek kopros dung]copro-
combining form
⇨ see copr-
combining form
⇨ see copr-
copro-
combining form
- of or relating to dung or faeces（与）粪（有关）的：
-
coprophagous
coprophilia.
词源
from Greek kopros 'dung'.
1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & MentalDis. XIII. 412Echolalia and coprolalia may form part of the symptoms of insanity... The coprolalia is pathognomonic of the disease, according to Tourette.
1898 H. Ellis Affirmations 147These extremes are of two kinds: the first issuing in a sort of coprolalia, or inclination to dwell on excrement... The other extreme is that of pruriency, or the perpetual itch to circle round sexual matters.
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 531When you have Tourette's disease you go around repeating dirty words all the time. Coprolalia. Everybody below Fourteenth Street has coprolalia.
1974 P. Cave Dirtiest Picture Postcard xi. 72‘Coprolalia,’ Murray repeated. ‘That's what it's called..the desire to say obscene things whilst making love.’
1880 Swinburne Let. 20 Apr. (1960) IV. 136The perpetual copromania of the ‘Old Enemy’ —with his ‘eternal cesspools’ and ‘owldroppings’. [ sc. Carlyle]
1900 J. M. Robertson in Lit. Guide 1 Mar. 43/1Such a one as Swift..filthy-minded, unscrupulous, and malignant. Had such a copromaniac been only an avowed unbeliever, . [ etc.]
1937 ‘N. Blake’ There's Trouble Brewing vi. 110,I didn't know he was a koprophil as well as a surrealist. [ ed. 1949, coprophil]
1953 S. Beckett Watt 53A vegetarian, a naturist, a cannibal, a coprophile.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Sept. 620/4His coprophilia is explained along the lines suggested by Freud. [ sc. Swift's]
1927 Bryan & Strachey tr. Abraham'sSel. Papers v. 129Professor Freud had told me in a private communication that..repression of the coprophilic pleasure in smell played a peculiar part in..foot-fetishism.
1962 A. S. Neill Summerhill 174The wrong way to deal with a coprophilic child is to tell him he is being dirty. The right way is to allow him to live out his interest in excrement by providing him with mud or clay.
1981 Maledicta V. 136 The known pornography of other renowned artists..often reflects considerable coprophilic feeling.
1901 Ann. Bot. XV. 313The absence of any specific work on Coprophilous or dung-borne Fungi.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushr. & Toadstools xvii. 195Coprophilous fungi grow directly from spores.
1924 A. Huxley Little Mexican 43The innocent coprophily of its inhabitants.
1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 61/2Coprophobia.
1922 Nature CIX. 98/2 There is a whole series of Amoeba-like and flagellate Protozoa which..develop in the faeces after deposition. These are called ‘coprozoic Protozoa’.
1947 New Biol. III. 89Vast accumulations of guano, supporting an elaborate association of coprozoic (i.e., dung-eating) insects and their predators.
copro-
word-forming element indicating "dung, filth, excrement," before vowels copr-, from Modern Latin copro-, from Greek kopros "dung," from PIE root *kekw-. Hence, coprology "study of obscene literature."
copro-
combining form
see copr-
see copr-
copro-
Prefix
- excrement, dung
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόπρος (kópros, “excrement”).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with copro-