English

Prefix

deipno-

1. Dinner, banquet; concerning or related to dinner.

   The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learnèd of Athenaeus

   • 1827, The British Critic, No. I, p. 475

     An interchange of deipno-diplomatic correspondence.

   • 1891 June 23, The Daily News, 4/8

     People who heartily sympathise with the ‘deipnophobia’ of Gordon.

Derived terms

• deipnophobia, deipnophobic
• deipnosophist, deipnosophistic, deipnosophism

References

1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "deipno-, comb. form". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1894.