Necro
/ˈnɛkroʊ/noun
A combining form meaning dead or death, used in words relating to corpses or death.
Did you know?The same Greek root νεκρός (nekrós) gave English both clinical words like necrosis and eerie ones like necromancy, literally the art of divination through the dead.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
νεκρός (nekrós)
“dead; a corpse”
Late Greek
Greek
νεκρο- (nekro-)
“combining form meaning dead, corpse-”
Late Latin
Latin
necro-
“borrowed combining form used in learned compounds”
19th Century
English
necro-
“combining form in scientific and learned words relating to death or dead tissue”
Modern English
English
necro
“informal clipping or combining form associated with death, corpses, and related themes”
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