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I hate and I love: opening of Catullus 85; the entire poem reads, "odi et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris / nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior" (I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you perhaps ask. / I do not know, but I feel it happening to me and I am burning up.) odi profanum vulgus et arceo: I hate the unholy rabble and keep them away
Misanthropy is traditionally defined as hatred or dislike of humankind. [3] [4] The word originated in the 17th century and has its roots in the Greek words μῖσος mīsos 'hatred' and ἄνθρωπος ānthropos 'man, human'.
Its declaration of conflicting feelings, "I hate and I love", is renowned for its drama, force and brevity. [1] The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet.
fear/dislike of Latin people: Lusophobia: fear/dislike of the Portuguese, Portuguese culture and the Portuguese language: Negrophobia: fear/dislike of black people: Nipponophobia: fear/dislike of the Japanese: Polonophobia: fear/dislike of the Polish: Russophobia: fear/dislike of Russians: Shiaphobia: fear/dislike of Shiites: Sinophobia: fear ...
Hatred or hate is an intense negative emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas, usually related to opposition or revulsion toward something. [1] Hatred is often associated with intense feelings of anger , contempt , and disgust .
Nigra is the Latin feminine form of niger (black), used in biologic and anatomic names such as substantia nigra (black substance). The word niggardly (miserly) is etymologically unrelated to nigger , derived from the Old Norse word nig (stingy) and the Middle English word nigon .
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This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.