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It reflects an attempt to stick to Greek ways of expressing things. Tom Send a noteboard - 23/10/2011 02:39:53 AM
Hemosexuality: being attracted only to menstruating women.

That would be haemorrhoeophilia, despite the fact that hemorrhoids usually have nothing to do with menstruation.


Wouldn't this really be meno(rrhea)philia? Come to think of it, given what happens with the menses here, menolagnia sounds better still.

rrhea vs. rrhoea, I get. But rrhoeo, I don't. Or take anni, annu, and enni, for example. I understand the meaning, but I don't know why the vowels change. Does it have to do with rules in the source language? Reintroduction of the same root but over a long period of time, indicating a change in the source language? Something else entirely?


Meno- is more common in medical literature. The best classic term I could find was haimorrhoia. The Greek rules on compound words have to do with declension of nouns and adjectives. So, for example, haima is blood but the genitive form is haimatos, so a lot of compounds (but not all) use the form without the final s. in this particular case, though, it doesn't use that form.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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My point was that it used exclusively Greek roots. Tom - 21/10/2011 11:00:09 PM 833 Views
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It reflects an attempt to stick to Greek ways of expressing things. Tom - 23/10/2011 02:39:53 AM 800 Views
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