It's based on ancient Greek, and still survives as the same word in modern Greek: μισογυνία
misogynía - misogyny. It's an amalgam of two Greek words - misos: hatred, and gunḗe: woman. If Dominic Raab had been to Dr Challoner's School at its formation, he would have spent ten hours a day on Latin and Greek. Sadly, Greek was not part of the curriculum when young Dominic arrived in 1986. Nor did Dominic spend much time speaking Greek on his Crete holiday, as the Taliban moved on Kabul.
misogynía - misogyny. It's an amalgam of two Greek words - misos: hatred, and gunḗe: woman. If Dominic Raab had been to Dr Challoner's School at its formation, he would have spent ten hours a day on Latin and Greek. Sadly, Greek was not part of the curriculum when young Dominic arrived in 1986. Nor did Dominic spend much time speaking Greek on his Crete holiday, as the Taliban moved on Kabul.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word entered English because of an anonymous proto-feminist play, Swetnam the Woman-Hater, published in 1620 in England. The play is a criticism of anti-woman writer Joseph Swetnam, who it represents with the pseudonym Misogynos. The character of Misogynos is the origin of the term misogynist in English.
No comments:
Post a Comment