zoolatry

See also: zoölatry

English

Alternative forms

• zoölatry

Etymology

Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- +‎ -latry.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɑlətɹi/, /zuˈɑlətɹi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒlətɹi/, /zuːˈɒlətɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

zoolatry (usually uncountable, plural zoolatries)

1. The worship of animals.
   • 1904, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 222:

     our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life […] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed.

   • 2004, Simson R Najovits, Egypt, Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, →ISBN, page 227:

     Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.

Related terms

• zoolater
• zoolatrous

Translations

worship of animals

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動物崇拜／动物崇拜 (dòngwù chóngbài)

• Esperanto: zoolatrio
• Finnish: eläintenpalvonta, zoolatria
• French: zoolâtrie (fr) f
• German: Zoolatrie (de) f
• Greek: ζωολατρία (el) f (zoolatría)
• Japanese: 動物崇拝 (どうぶつすうはい, dōbutsusūhai)
• Polish: animalizm (pl) m, zoolatria (pl) f

Further reading

• Animal worship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia