Borrowed from Late Latin histriōnicus ("pertaining to acting; scurrilous, shameful; wretched"), from Latin histriōnicus ("pertaining to acting and the theatre"), from histriō + -icus. Morphologically, the word may be surface analysed as histrion + -ic.
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