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I'm on one of my (usually futile) word hunts again. Mrs. Byrne gives this potentially useful word:
cacestogenous [adj.] caused by unfavorable home environment
as a direct result of this, the word has proliferated somewhat (399 ghits) on the 'net, but I've found no actual use of it in the wild, nor have I found it in any real dictionary.
as always with these, usage or etymology would be most helpful.
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Liddel & Scott isn't much help. It does have kakestos (with an eta and an omega) meaning 'ill being'.
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On a little curiosity trip, not finding a context for the word, I came across the entry called Sheet1. Too much for my taste but for real wordlerps maybe: link real wordcrazers.
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Liddel & Scott isn't much help. It does have kakestos (with an eta and an omega) meaning 'ill being'. howdy!
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Yeh, you must be real flattered " for I am the eta and the omega".
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yes, I'm trying to figure out how to collect royalties...
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You're lucky the original Mr. Shrdlu doesn't sue you for copyright violation. Actually, my bad. The letter in the Greek is epsilon.
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Distributing faux Greek to the ignorant and alms to the poor. Eta is the Basque separationists' movement.
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Liddel & Scott isn't much help. It does have kakestos (with an eta and an omega) meaning 'ill being'. actually, this is some help :: 'ill being' + -genous (-genic), ‘of or relating to origin or development (of the thing or a kind specified by the first element)’ makes it look like one of those inkhorn terms that someone formulated and then never used.
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On a little curiosity trip, not finding a context for the word, I came across the entry called Sheet1. Too much for my taste but for real wordlerps maybe: link real wordcrazers. Uh, hi. That page you 'linked' , Bran. Does it have a homepage in English??
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