Where does “ecumaniac” come from?
ecumaniac (English) comes from English maniac, from French maniaque, from Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός, from Ancient Greek μανίᾱ, from Ancient Greek νόσος, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
ecumaniac (English): A person of excessively ecumenical views
Definitions
- A person of excessively ecumenical views
Ancestry of “ecumaniac”, step by step
ecumaniac traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English maniac
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | maniac | An insane person, especially one who suffers from... |
| 2 | French | maniaque | maniacal; maniac |
| 3 | Latin | maniacus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μανιακός | causing insanity |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μανίᾱ | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | νόσος | sickness, disease, illness; plague; misery,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via English ecumenical
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ecumenical | Pertaining to the universal Church, representing... |
| 2 | English | ecumenic | Ecumenical |
| 3 | French | œcuménique | œcumenic, ecumenic, ecumenical |
| 4 | Late Latin | oecumenicus | Of or pertaining to whole inhabited world;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | οἰκουμενικός | from or open to the whole world |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |