pumpkinification

English

Etymology

From pumpkin +‎ -ification: a calque of the Ancient Greek ἀποκολοκύντωσις (apokolokúntōsis) via the Latin apocolocyntosis. From the title of the work Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, a satire on the deification of Claudius.

Noun

pumpkinification (uncountable)

1. The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
   • 1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III.

     Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.

   • 1989, Robert Atwan, Our Times:

     Christianity, for example, admits females only as third-ranking immortals ("saints"), and many of its third-ranking gods, prior to their pumpkinification, were themselves vicious misogynists.

   • 1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg,

     Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “turning into a pumpkin”): apotheosis, deification

Related terms

• pumpkin
• pumpkinless
• pumpkinseed

Translations

the act of turning into a pumpkin

• French: apocoloquintose (fr) f
• German: Apocolocyntosis f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀποκολοκύντωσις (apokolokúntōsis)

• Italian: apokolokyntosis f, apocolocintesi f, zucchificazione
• Latin: apocolocyntosis f
• Polish: apokolokyntoza f