onolatry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin onolatrīa, from the Ancient Greek ὀνολᾰτρείᾱ (onolătreíā), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + λᾰτρείᾱ (lătreíā, “worship”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: onolatrīa, ὀνολᾰτρείᾱ