English
Necronomicon
Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek, derived from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”.
Equivalent to necro- + -nomicon
The story
Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek, derived from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”. Coined by American writer H.
Today it means
name A fictional grimoire of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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