Pronounced: ber-SOOZ, noun
Notes: Another potentially useful word that I’ve not run across
Yesterday’s word
The word philargyry is “the love of money; greed”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
There is a fairly well-known phrase from the Bible: For the love of money is the root of all evil: I didn’t know that there was a word for this. It came from the Greek words phil- (love) and argyros (silver).
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