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Catacombs isn't the first thing I'd think of when I hear the word 'cataphile'
by OhioMan2943 3y ago
Catacombs isn't the first thing I'd think of when I hear the word 'cataphile'
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- ycombinete 3y agoI 100% thought this was going to be about catamites and the police in some bygone age.
- dtgriscom 3y agoI went to feline-o-philia.
- poorlyknit 3y agoTo be pedantic, that's mixing latin (felis) with greek (philia). Not sure if there's a word already but you could do ailourophilia.
- usrusr 3y agoI'm not good at dead languages, but I've heard complaints about cross-language mixing often enough that I suspect that there's a special term for people who like pointing that out. Or perhaps, depending on irony levels, three terms. One each in Greek and Latin which they use to describe themselves, and one in Greek and Latin others use to describe them.
- Aardwolf 3y ago> I suspect that there's a special term for people who like pointing that out How about "commixtiophobia". Commixtio = Latin for 'mixing', phobia = Greek for 'fear'
- cantSpellSober 3y agoFor HN; that's not pedantry :) When I, too, learned this wasn't about cats I scrolled down to see what the proper term was. Thanks!