This week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

This week’s words
frankenfood
preternatural
logomaniac
parthenogenesis
bryology

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(lo-guh-MAY-nee-ak)

MEANING:

noun: One who is obsessively interested in words.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek logo- (word) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1870.

USAGE:

“Thumbing through the dictionary in this way can create many a pleasurable afternoon for the irrepressible logomaniac.”
Tracy Lee Simmons; Johnson’s Canon; The Weekly Standard (Washington, DC); May 29, 2006.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: