-latry
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Worship:
崇拜：
bibliolatry.
书籍崇拜
语源
- From Greek latreia [service, worship]
源自 希腊语 latreia [服务；崇拜]
-latry
combining form in countable noun
indicating worship of or excessive veneration of
⇒
idolatry
⇒
Mariolatry
Derived Forms
-latrous combining form in adjectiveOrigin
from Greek -latria, from latreia worship-latry
Word Origin
1
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek meaning “worship” (idolatry); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (bardolatry).
Origin
< Greek -latria. See latria, -y3
Related Words
- anthropolatry
- bibliolatry
- demonolatry
- ecclesiolatry
- hagiolatry
- heliolatry
-latrya word element meaning 'worship', as in demonolatry.
[Greek latreia worship]-latry
noun combining form
heliolatry
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY French -latrie, from Late Latin -latria, from Greek, from latreia; akin to Greek latron pay
: worshipheliolatry
-latry
combining form
- denoting worship of a specified thing表示“对指明事物的崇拜”：
-
idolatry.
词源
from Greek -latria 'worship'.
1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs iii. (1892) 13How should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part of our creed?
1859 F. E. Paget Curate ofCumb. , etc. 330She was immolating health and spirits in crochetolatry.
1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 770/2The question of how far the Puritan civilization has carried the cult of the personal conscience into mere dutiolatry.
-latry
word-forming element meaning "worship of," used as an element in native formations from 19c. (such as bardolatry), from Greek -latreia "worship, service paid to the gods, hired labor," related to latron (n.) "pay, hire," latris "servant, worshipper," from PIE *le- (1) "to get" (see larceny).
ORIGIN: Greek -latreia worship: cf. latria
-latry ⇒ Main Entry: -later
-latry
combining form. worship of _____; devotion to _____: Mariolatry = devotion to the Virgin Mary.
[< Greek -latreia < latreíā; see etym. under latria]
-la·try
\lə.trē, -ri\ noun combining form
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English -latrie, from Old French, from Late Latin -latria, from Greek latreia service, worship; akin to Greek latron pay, hire
: worship of or fanatical devotion to a (specified) object
< heliolatry >
< heliolatry >
-latry
Suffix
- Added to stem of a noun, forms a noun meaning worship of stemmed noun
Etymology
From Late Latin latria, from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “service", "worship”)
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -latry