The Haters and Saints

We already had a discussion on different type of people we can come across in our day to day life but we haven't yet discussed about the haters and the Saints.

The Haters !

The people who hate something. It can be another person, a gender, a social norm or anything else. We have read a little Latin when we discovered 'Ego', 'Alter', & 'Verto' and now we can move ahead with a little Greek. The Greek word for 'Hate' is 'Misein' and is used in quite a few English words.

Misanthropist, Misogynist, Misogamist

Before we move ahead, lets first focus on little etymology of these words.

• Misanthropist is derived from 'Misein' and 'Anthropos' where 'Anthropos' means 'Mankind'
• From 'Anthropos' there have been numerous other words which have been derived like Anthropology (Study of development of Mankind or Human Race), Philanthropist (Opposite of Misanthropist) and obviously Philanthropy and Philanthropic
• Misogynist is derived from 'Misein' and 'Gyne' where Gyne means 'Women'
• From 'Gyne' there have been numerous other words which have been derived like Gynecology, Gynecological, Gynecologist all of these words are related to women.
• Misogamist is derived from 'Misein' and 'Gamous' where Gamous means 'Marriage'
• From 'Gamous' there have been numerous other words which have been derived like Bigamy, Monogamy, Polygamy. From these words, further we can derive Bigamist, Bigamous, Monogamist, Monogamous, Polygamist, Polygamous to represent the person and the practice
• One important thing from etymological perspective is to understand how 'Bi', 'Mono' and 'Poly' have been used to represent 'Two', 'One' and 'Many' when coined with another word 'Gamy'.
• Here one should understand that when we talk about Bigamy, Monogamy or Polygamy we are generally representing a practice where a man marries one or several marriages. But what in case of a woman marrying two or more men ? This is called 'Polyandry' where 'Andros' from Greek is used to represent 'Male'.

So etymologically if we derive the meaning of these words then the meaning is:

• Misanthropist  means, someone who hates mankind
• Misogynist means, someone who hates women
• Misogamist means, someone who hates marriage

From these three words we can in not much time derive other words like Misanthropy, Misanthropic, Misogyny, Misogynous, Misogynistic, Misogamy, Misogamist 

The Saints !

Greek language has given various important words to English language and when we talk about personalities we have got  'Anthropos', 'Misein', 'Gyne', 'Gamous', 'Andros' and 'Asketes'. We havent yet talked about 'Asketes'.

In Greek, 'Asketes' means 'Monk'. In English we have derived Asceticism and Ascetic from Asketes. In short we can define the modern English words as below:

• Asceticism is a practice of being Monk
• Ascetic is simply a Monk

Thanks

Manoj