word for "overly fond of one's children"?

[Joel S. Berson]

Doesn't "ultraphilo-" already mix Latin with Greek?

Joel

At 1/20/2006 07:02 PM, you wrote:
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> >"Ultraphiloprogenitiveness."
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> >   JL
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>Or "hyperphiloprogenitivity", if we can mix Greek with Latin.
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>LH
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> >Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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> >On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:42:26AM -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
> >>  Indeed. OED has "philoprogenitiveness" from 1815 (with three cites
> >>  total; a search of A9 shows that others are possible) and defines it
> >>  as "Love of offspring; the instinct or faculty of love for one's
> >>  children, or for children (and animals) in general. Its organ is
> >>  located by phrenologists just above the middle of the cerebellum."
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> >(The OED draft entry for this now has seven citations, up to
> >1995, along with a brand-new sense 'inclination to or liking for the
> >production of offspring; fecundity', with cites from 1842-1996. No
> >notion of excess in either case, though.)
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> >Jesse Sheidlower
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