phon-, phono- +
(Greek: phono[s]; slaughter, murder, homicide)
Don't confuse this phono-, phon- with another phono-, phon-, etc. that means "sound, voice, speech". In Greek, a distinction is made between the phonos (PHOH nohs), "murder", which is spelled with the letter omicron in the last syllable; and the Greek phonos (phoh NOHS), "voice", which is spelled with the letter omega in the last syllable. Both omicron and omega became the letter "o" in English.
androphonomania
Homicidal insanity.
autophonomania
1. An obsessive desire to commit suicide.
2. A condition in which someone is suicidal.
buphonia
In Greek antiquities, a sacrificial ceremony, forming part of the
Dilpolia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the month of
Skirophorion (June-July) at Athens, when a laboring ox was sacrificed to Zeus Polieus as protector of the city in accordance with a very ancient custom.
The ox was driven to the altar, on which grain was spread, by members of the family of the Kentriadae, on whom this duty was hereditarily given. When the ox began to eat, one of the family of the Thaulonidae advanced with an axe, killed the ox, then immediately threw the axe away and fled.
The axe, being polluted by murder, was now carried before the court of the Prytaneurn, that tried inanimate objects for homicide, and there the axe was charged with, and convicted, of having caused the death of the ox, after which it was thrown into the sea.
Although the slaughter of a laboring ox was forbidden, it was considered excusable in exceptional circumstances; however, it was regarded as a murder and so its killing instrument was "punished".
erotophonophilia, homicidophilia
In psychiatry, a sexual perversion in which arousal and orgasm are dependent upon sacrificial killing of the partner; lust murder; sadism, rape (a crime of violence).
phonomania
Defined as homicidal mania (where Greek phonos = murder); an older term for homicidomania.
pseudophonia
Suicide disguised as murder.
Related "death, dead; kill" units:
-cide;
lethal-;
mort-;
neci-;
necro-;
thanato-.
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