(urth) "Latro"

[Mo Holkar]

"-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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