FORNICATION – ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY: PORNOGRAPHY (& PORNOCRACY)

 

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1992, p. 1410, “pornography”:

P. 2119, “[Appendix] INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS | per-5”:


Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1963, p. 1932, “porn- | porno-”:

 

Chambers English Dictionary, 1988, p. 1136, “porn(o)-”:

 

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged), 1986, p. 1767, “porn…”:

 

Oxford Universal English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1937, vol. 7, p. 1546:

 

Words On Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words, Bremner, Columbia University Press, 1980, p. 293:

 

The Facts On File: Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Hendrickson, 1997, p. 540:

 

Fundamentals of Human Sexuality, Katchadourian, 1989, p. 517, “Pornography”:

 

The World Book Dictionary, 1971, p. 1608:

 

The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged), 1987, p. 1506, “pornography”:

 

Webster’s New World Dictionary of the English Language: Concise Edition, 1959, p. 579, “pornography”:

 

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Onions, 1966, p. 697, “pornographer”:

 

Larousse Illustrated International Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 1972, Part 2: Dictionary, p. 684:

 

A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk, Rawson, 1981, p. 88, “erotica”:

 

A Concise Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Earnest Weekley, 1924, p.653:

 

Jarrolds’ Dictionary of Difficult Words, Hill, 1944, p. 257:

 

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