(urth) "Latro"

[David Stockhoff]

Right, the "mono" is a separate idea from the "latry." It seems relevant 
on its own but it led me to "latry."

Yes: thief/mercenary + worship(er) seems an interesting combination. 
Especially given how Latro seems to have received his head wound: 
despoiling a shrine after a battle, IIRC.

On 4/22/2015 5:42 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:
> "-latry" as a suffix can be found with a number of other prefixes, 
> perhaps most familiarly in "idolatry". Of course Wolfe was thinking of 
> the play on latro in Latin meaning thief, while latreia in Greek means 
> worship: but it seems a bit of a stretch of inference to see hidden 
> meaning in the "mono-" prefixed version specifically?
>
> best,
>
> Mo
>
>
>
> At 23:38 21/04/2015, David wrote:
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64I just encountered a new word---that 
>> is, a word that's new to me. Not,
>> I'm sure, to this forum. The Greek root is only part of it, though its
>> similarity to "Latro" is new to me too.
>>
>> I'll just quote from the Wiki and let people draw their own 
>> conclusions about Latro's name in the context of Wolfe's theories 
>> about gods and God.
>>
>> *Monolatrism or monolatry* (Greek: μó¯s¯ð"†Ööæ÷2’Ò6­ævƒÂàd 
>> λατρεΣ¬HŠ]™ZXJHHÛÜœÚ\
>> H\ÈH™XÛÙÛš][Û€ of the existence of many gods, but with the consistent 
>> worship of only one deity.
>>
>> An example given is Akhenaten's heresy, Atenism.
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