anathema

anathema
\ \ [16] Originally in Greek anáthēma was a ‘votive offering’ (it was a derivative of the compound verb anatithénaiset up, dedicate’, formed from the prefix ana- ‘up’ and the verb tithénaiplace’, source of English theme and related to English do). But from being broadly ‘anything offered up for religious purposes’, the word gradually developed negative associations of ‘something dedicated to evil’; and by the time it reached Latin it meant ‘curse’ or ‘accursed person’.
\ \ Cf.DO, THEME

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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