FORNICATION – ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY: PORNOGRAPHY (& PORNOCRACY)
(English: porn… ; Greek: πορν…[transliterated: porn…])
The “porn” in “pornography” is from the Greek “πορν…” meaning “prostitution”:
Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1923, p. 1677:
The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary, Hawkins / Allen, 1991, p. 1128, “pornography”:
Encarta World English Dictionary, 1999, p. 1402, “pornography”:
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, 1998, p. 562, “pornography”:
Athenaeus (c. 200 AD).
Slang and Euphemism, Spears, 1982, p. 322, “porn | pornography”:
The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, 1988, p. 819, “pornography”:
Dictionary of Sexual Slang, Richter, 1993, pp. 172-173, “porn”:
Dictionary of Changes in Meaning, Adrian Room, 1986, p. 210, “pornography”:
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language: International Edition, 1966, p. 983, “pornography”:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1964, p. 946:
Ready Reference: Ethics, Roth, 1994, vol. ?, p. 680, “Pornography”:
Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society, Clarke / Linzey, 1996, p. 667, “PORNOGRAPHY”:
Short Dictionary of Classical Word Origins, Wedeck, 1957, pp. 60-61:
Dictionary of Early English, Shipley, 1955, p. 521, “pornerastic”:
The Oxford English Dictionary, 1933:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1897, p. 4627:
