coprophenomenon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any psychopathological phenomenon (in particular an automatic behaviour or preoccupation) that involves obscenity or faeces, such as coprolalia, copropraxia, coprophilia and so forth.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷr̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷ-ro-sder. Ancient Greek κόπρος (kópros) English copro- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon English coprophenomenon From copro- + phenomenon.