-misia

See also: misia and misią

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ-der.

Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos)der.

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)der.

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)?

Ancient Greek -ιᾰ (-iă)

Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)der.

Latin -iader.

English -ia

English -misia

From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) +‎ -ia. First attested in the 1950s. Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).