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#131228 08/11/04 10:43 AM
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I'm looking for a Greek suffix, or affix of any kind, meaning 'one who does (something)', akin to Latin -ator.

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Here's the list from Smyth's Greek Grammar §839:

a. The primary suffixes ta:, te:r, tor, tro, eu, denoting the agent or doer of an action, are masculine.

b. The primary suffixes trid, tria:, teira:, tid, are feminine.

c. The same root or verb-stem may have different suffixes denoting the agent: gen-e-te:s, gen-e-te:r, gen-e-to:r, 'begetter'; math-e:-tris or math-e:-tria, 'female pupil', fem. of math-e:-tis.

d. Words in -te:r, -tris, -eus are oxytone. Words in -to:r, -teira, -tria have recessive accent. Words in -te:s are oxytone or paroxytone.

e. See also on (nom. -o:n) §861.18.

861.18: on (nom. -o:n: primary, in words of agency: tekt-o:n 'carpenter', trug-o:n 'turtle-dove' (truzo: 'murmur'), klud-o:n 'wave' (kluzo: 'dash'; and in others, as eik-o:n 'image' (oika 'am like'), khi-o:n 'snow'.

You can search Liddell & Scott online, by these endings to find actual words or give you a feel as to how words might be coined. Hope this helps.


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So terrorist would be something like deimo:n or deimotor?


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Speaking of greek terrorists, would you have this segment of 60 Minutes [aired 2 1/2 years ago but anticipating today] in mind, Fadage?

[Veteran 60 Mininutes journalist Ed] Bradley claimed that the issue of terrorism in Greece concerns Washington in light of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, while saying that although no link has been uncovered tying "November 17", the inability of Greek authorities to hunt down the group's members may "attract" other terrorist organizations to Athens in 2004.
Bradley also described the U.S. embassy in Athens as a
veritable "fortress", adding that the U.S. State Department spends more money on the safety of U.S. diplomats in Greece than it does for any other country in the world.
Presenting Greece as a terrorist "paradise", the "60 Minutes" segment describing the Greek Parliament Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis as representing the "ultra-nationalist and anti-American" wing of the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party.

For full story, go to:

http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-01/08/content_228506.htm

BTW "greek morpheme sought" is a good way to introduce "Jeeves isn't asking, he's telling" in the current issue of Red Herring mag.

Extract:
"Programmed searches are one way for search engines to set themselves apart – and provide links to their own content. But search engines must tread a fine line between giving bread-and-butter search results and bombarding users with superfluous content that drives frustrated searchers to the competition."

For full story, go to:
http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=10791&hed=Jeeves+isn't+asking%2c+he's+telling


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Well, I think it need sto be stuck onto a verb rather than a noun. There's a word phobetron 'scarecrow, bugbear, terror', maybe you could have phobetor or deimatote:s.


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stuck onto a verb rather than a noun

Over to wordorigins they're looking for a word for 'fear of terrorists.' Personally I'd think it'd look a little funny to have the morpheme phob in it twice. Could we go with 'deimatotephobia'?


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they're looking for a word for 'fear of terrorists.'

Ah. wasn't aware of this final criterion. How about deimatotriaphobia? Sorta rolls off the tongue. Don't know what those ancient and wily Greeks would make of it ... I personally will try to use phobetrophobia 'fear of scarecrows or bugbears' in conversation today, or perhaps during the weekly meeting as an agendum (agenda item).


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they're looking for a word for 'fear of terrorists.'

Makes one wonder how the "ancient and wily greeks" would translate "fear of fear" because that is the essential sinister genius behind terrorism, as we all know.

As Winston Churchill said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". And Churchill was then fighting a war which the free world could actually win by going to war, rather than by going to peace.




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Or phoworse. I understand that some men are in terror of the phrase.



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deimatotriaphobia

I like it. It's got it all over terroristphobia. I'll give you credit unless you want to go post it yourself.

http://p066.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm1.showMessage?topicID=10768.topic


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