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-orama

suffix

Etymology

Back-formation from panorama and cyclorama (which are modern coinages, not Greek words), and thus from Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “sight”, “spectacle”), in turn evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *wer-, meaning to perceive or look out for.

  1. derived from *wer-✻
  2. derived from ὅρᾱμᾰ

Definitions

  1. Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic…

    Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA