[ExI] need a new word/suffix

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sunday, 13 December 2015, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> Latin for hate is "odium" (odi-, as in odious), greek is "miso" (tuned
> into mis-, as in misogynous). Neither seem to work as a suffix.
>

"Misos" is the noun so "xenomisos", for example, would work.


> Then there is invidia, which primarily means envy/spite/ill will, but also
> hatred/dislike. Xenoinvidia sounds pretty impressive... except that it is a
> greek-latin hybrid (like television).
>
> Latin has the word alienus for foreigner. Alienodium?
>
> There is also the Latin word bracatus meaning "wearing trousers/foreign".
>
> Hmm, what about allophobia?
>
>
>
> On 2015-12-12 21:35, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
>
> I have looked into it a bit and there is no good suffix for 'hate'.  And
> we do need one.
>
> We are using 'xenophobia' to mean not just fear but hate and that is just
> wrong.  We can even love what we fear.
>
> So, group, I don't know of any other people who are better placed to
> create a new suffix and thus word for hate of the new/strange/different.
>
> It must, I think, start with xeno-.  Latin offers 'peregrinus' for alien.
> Maybe not workable.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Bill W
>
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> Anders Sandberg
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