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

[Laurence Horn]

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

True 'nuff, as does "philoprogenitive" itself.  So might as well go
all out for the "hyper-"...

LH

>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."
>>>
>>>(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
>>>OED
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