The word polyamorous is based on a blend of the prefix poly- (from the Greek, meaning ‘more than one’) and amor, the Latin word for ‘love’. Though there is evidence of usage as far back as the 1960s, the word was popularised in the early 1990s by US poet Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, who used it in a 1990 article entitled A Bouquet of Lovers. In 1999, Zell-Ravenheart was allegedly asked by the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to provide a definition of polyamory, which she defined as: