What Is 'krowemoh In Latin

The claim: 'Homework' spelled astern means 'child abuse' in Latin

Many words and phrases are known to take different meanings in other languages, and much of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin roots.

Some social media users are claiming that the word "homework" spelled backward has a meaning in the Latin language.

A February. 27 Instagram mail service with near 18,000 likes features a screenshot of the Google search, "what is homework backwards." The issue purportedly reads, "And so basically 'Homework' spelled backwards is 'krowemoh' which in Latin translates to child corruption."

The same screenshot included in the Instagram meme also appears in several viral TikToks, and the hashtag #Krowemoh has more than than 246,000 views on the platform.

The Google search screenshot that users have used to make the claim is taken from a March 7, 2013, viral post that has recently resurfaced on Twitter, where many users have shared similar versions of the claim.

"I knew that this homework was just a way to abuse children," one Twitter user wrote forth with the claim on Jan. 24.

The states TODAY reached out to the Instagram user for annotate.

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'Krowemoh' is not a Latin give-and-take

The word "krowemoh" does not exist in Latin. According to Google interpret, child abuse in Latin is actually "puer abusus."

A search of "krowemoh" on onlineLatin-to-English dictionaries results in no matches.

The classical Latin alphabet consists of 23 characters, and the letter W is not one of them. In Latin, the letter U represented a W sound which could only occur only before a vowel, according to Dictionary.com.

European languages that use the Latin alphabet exercise not use the letters K and Westward, and they add letters with diacritical marks or pairs of messages that read as 1 sound, according to Britannica.

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The claim that "krowemoh" translates to "child abuse" in Latin was added in January to Urbandictionary.com, a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases.

The Urban Lexicon definition of "krowemoh" makes a joke of the word and children having loads of homework assignments.

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Our rating: False

The claim that "homework" spelled backward translates to "child abuse" in Latin is Imitation, based on our research. "Krowemoh" does not exist in the Latin language and the letter W is not part of the Latin alphabet.

Our fact-check sources:

Google Interpret, accessed March iii, English to Latin, 'puer abusus'
Latin Dictionary, accessed March 3, 'Krowemoh' search
Latin-Lexicon.net, accessed March iii, 'Krowemoh' search Latin to English
Latin-English language Dictionary, accessed March iii, 'Krowemoh' search Latin to English language
Dictionary.com, accessed March 3, 'What Does the Letter 'U' Have to do with 'Due west'?'
Britannica, accessed March 3, Latin alphabet
Urban Dictionary, Jan. vi, 'Krowemoh'

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