Word: telegony
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: te
leg
o
ny
Definition: The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
Morphemes:
Affix: tele-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: over a distance
Etymology Compounds: Affix: τῆλε
Language: grc
Decoded: tele
Meaning: at a distance, far off, far away, far from
Affix: -gony
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms nouns that describe the genesis of a class of thing