English
infohazard
Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.
A blend of information + hazard
Latin fōrma
…
Latin īnfōrmō ‘to form, give shape to’
Latin īnfōrmātiō ‘formation, conception; education’
Anglo-Norman informacioun
Middle English enformacioun
English information
The story
Analogous to biohazard and possibly modeled after it.
Today it means
noun A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / infohazard