idololatria

Latin

Alternative forms

• īdōlatrīa, eidōlolatrīa

Etymology

Borrowed from Koine Greek εἰδωλολατρείᾱ (eidōlolatreíā) or εἰδωλολατρίᾱ (eidōlolatríā, “worship of idols”), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs) (īdōlatra in Latin), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “idol”) + λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”) or λατρεύω (latreúō, “I worship”), from λάτρον (látron, “payment”).

Noun

īdōlolatrīa f (genitive īdōlolatrīae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) idolatry

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īdōlolatrīa	īdōlolatrīae
Genitive	īdōlolatrīae	īdōlolatrīārum
Dative	īdōlolatrīae	īdōlolatrīīs
Accusative	īdōlolatrīam	īdōlolatrīās
Ablative	īdōlolatrīā	īdōlolatrīīs
Vocative	īdōlolatrīa	īdōlolatrīae

References

• “idololatria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idololatria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.