English
fictionmonger
From fiction + monger.
A compound of fiction + monger
Latin fingō ‘to form, devise, feign’
Latin fictiō ‘a making; a feigning’
Old French ficcion ‘dissimulation, invention’
Middle English ficcioun ‘invention, fabrication’
English fiction
Latin mangō ‘dealer, trader’
Proto-West Germanic *mangārī ‘dealer, merchant, monger’
Old English mangere ‘dealer, merchant, trader’
Middle English mongere ‘dealer, merchant, trader’
English monger
Today it means
noun A writer of fiction.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fictionmonger