Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet

Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by thingexplainer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:09PM (#12736550)

It isn't a real word I'm afraid, but an FBI invention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Onymous

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by Etzos on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:23PM (#12736709)

It is a real word though.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by thingexplainer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:28PM (#12736766)

Thanks, learned something new.

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by zem on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:35PM (#12736824)

interesting, I've always used "nonymous" for that, but "onymous" is etymologically sounder

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by jcranmer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:52PM (#12736973)

Yeah, I was going to say "nonymous" was etymologically superior, but then I looked up the etymology for anonymous before hitting send.

Given that the English (/Germanic) is "name" and the French is "nom", I would have expected the PIE for name to be some sort of "nVm"-ish thing, whence I expected the Greek to render it is some sort of "non"-ish thing. The actual Greek is ónoma, with the PIE being something like *hnómn. (So my PIE guess was right-ish, but the transition to Hellenic was wrong).

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