telephilon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Sophronia sat, lost. In deep muse. Round her ebony chair Lay the cracked leaves of the telephilon."
"Theocritus, an ancient Greek poet, says that the leaf of a flower called telephion was used by the boys of Crotona as an amatory oracle. [...] Telephilon has been identified as a kind of pepper tree, or, according to some, as the poppy."

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τηλέφιλον (tēléphilon); ? from a Pre-Greek word, possibly altered to reflect τῆλε (têle, “far, afar”) + φίλον (phílon, “beloved, love”).

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek τηλέφιλον (tēléphilon); ? from a Pre-Greek word, possibly altered to reflect τῆλε (têle, “far, afar”) + φίλον (phílon, “beloved, love”).

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