Anthropic -- Etymology

anthropic

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"pertaining to man," 1859, from Gk. anthropikos "human," from anthropos "male human being, man" (see anthropo-).

anthropo-

prefix meaning "pertaining to man," from comb. form of Gk. anthropos "man, human being" (sometimes also including women) from Attic andra (gen. andros), from Gk. aner "man" (as opposed to a woman, a god, or a boy), from PIE *hner "man" (cf. Skt. nar-, Armenian ayr, Welsh ner). Anthropos sometimes is explained as a compound of aner and ops (gen. opos) "eye, face;" so lit. "he who has the face of a man." The change of -d- to -th- is difficult to explain; perhaps it is from some lost dialectal variant, or the mistaken belief that there was an aspiration sign over the vowel in the second element (as though *-dhropo-), which mistake might have come about by infl. of common verbs such as horao "to see."

anthropocentric

"regarding man as the center," 1863, from anthropo- + -centric. Anthropocentrism is attested from 1909.

anthropogenic

1889, from anthropogeny (1839), from Gk. *anthropogeneia, from anthropogenes "born of man," from anthropo- + genes (see genus).

anthropoid (adj.)

"manlike," c.1837, from anthropo- + -iod. As a noun, attested from 1832 (the Gk. noun in this sense was anthropion).

anthropolatry

"worship of a human being," from Gk. anthropos (see anthropo-) + latreia "hired labor, service, worship."

anthropology

"science of the natural history of man," 1590s, coined from Gk. anthropo- + -logia "study of." In Aristotle, anthropologos is used literally, as "speaking of man." Related: Anthropological (1825); anthropologist (1798).

anthropometric

1871, from anthropometry "measurement of the human body" (1839), from anthropo- + Gk. metria "a measuring."

anthropomorphic

1827, from anthropomorphous (1753), Anglicization of L.L. anthropomorphus "having human form," from Gk. anthropomorphos, from anthropos "human being" (see anthropo-) + morphe "form" (see morphine). Originally in reference to regarding God or gods as having human form and human characteristics; of animals and other things from 1858.

anthropomorphism

1753, "attributing of human qualities to a deity" (see anthropomorphic). Of other non-human things, from 1858. Related: Anthropomorphize (1845).

anthropopathy

"ascribing of human feelings to god," from Gk. anthropopatheia "humanity," lit. "human feeling," from anthropo- + -patheia, from pathein "to suffer" (see pathos).

anthropophagy

"cannibalism," from Fr. anthropophagie, from Gk. anthropophagia, from anthropophagos "man-eater," from anthropo- + stem of phagein "to eat" (see -phagous).

lycanthrope

1829, from Mod.L. lycanthropus (see lycanthropy).

lycanthropy

1580s, from Gk. lykanthropia, from lykos "wolf" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-). Originally a form of madness (described by ancient writers) in which the afflicted thought he was a wolf; applied to actual transformations of persons (esp. witches) into wolves since 1830 (see werewolf).

misanthrope

"one who hates mankind," 1560s, from Gk. misanthropos "hating mankind," from misein "to hate" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-). Alternative form misanthropist is attested from 1650s.

misanthropic

1762, from misanthrope + -ic.

misanthropy

1650s, from Gk. misanthropia, from misanthropos (see misanthrope).

philanthropist

1730s, from philanthropy.

philanthropy

c.1600, from L.L. philanthropia, from Gk. philanthropia "humanity, benevolence," from philanthropos (adj.) "loving mankind," from phil- "loving" + anthropos "mankind" (see anthropo-). Originally in L.L. form; modern spelling attested from 1620s.

pithecanthropus

"genus of extinct primates," 1895, from Mod.L., lit. "monkey-man," from Gk. pithekos "ape" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-). Coined 1868 by Haeckel as a name for a hypothetical link between apes and men (attested in Eng. in this sense from 1876); applied by Dr. Eugène Dubois (1858-1940), physician of the Du. army in Java, to remains he found there in 1891.

psilanthropism

"the teaching that Jesus was entirely human," c.1810, from Gk. psilanthropos "merely human," from psilos "naked, bare, mere" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-).

zoanthropy

form of mania in which a man imagines himself to be another type of beast, 1856, from Mod.L. zoanthropia, from Gk. zoion "animal" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-).