-latry
-olatry, representing Gr. -λατρεία worship, as in εἰδωλολατρεία idolatry. Other examples, legitimately formed on possible Gr. types, are angelolatry, astrolatry, bibliolatry, cosmolatry, demonolatry, grammatolatry, Mariolatry, q.v. Hence, in humorous nonce-use, have been formed divers hybrids, as babyolatry (q.v.), crochetolatry, dutiolatry, lordolatry. Corresponding to this is the termination -(o)later, representing Gr. -λατρης, as in idolater, bibliolater.
| 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs iii. (1892) 13 How should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part of our creed? 1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumb., etc. 330 She was immolating health and spirits in crochetolatry. 1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 770/2 The question of how far the Puritan civilization has carried the cult of the personal conscience into mere dutiolatry. |