-phobia
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- An intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing:
表示“对某一特定事物的强烈的、不正常的或不合逻辑的恐惧”：
xenophobia.
仇外，惧外
语源
- Late Latin
后期拉丁语 - from Greek
源自 希腊语 - from phobos [fear] * see bheg w-
源自 phobos [害怕] *参见 bheg w-
-phobia
combining form in countable noun
indicating an extreme abnormal fear of or aversion to
⇒
acrophobia
⇒
claustrophobia
Derived Forms
-phobic combining form in adjectiveOrigin
via Latin from Greek, from phobos fear-phobia
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek (hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element:
agoraphobia.
Origin
< Latin < Greek, equivalent to -phob(os) -phobe + -ia -ia
Related Words
- mysophobia
- acarophobia
- acrophobia
- aerophobia
- agoraphobia
- ailurophobia
-phobiaa word element forming a noun termination meaning 'fear' or 'dread', often morbid, or with implication of aversion or hatred, as in agoraphobia, Anglophobia, hydrophobia, monophobia.
[Latin, from Greek]-phobia
noun combining form
acrophobia
2. intolerance or aversion for
photophobia
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Late Latin, from Greek, from -phobos fearing, from phobos fear, flight, from phebesthai to flee; akin to Lithuanian bėgti to flee, Old Church Slavic běžati
1. exaggerated fear ofacrophobia
2. intolerance or aversion for
photophobia
-phobia
combining form
- extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group表示“（极端或不合理的）恐惧”, “憎恶”：
-
arachnophobia
Russophobia.
派生词
-phobic combining form
in corresponding adjectives
［用于相应形容词］。
词源
via Latin from Greek.
1547– . [ see hydrophobia]
1803 Gallophobia . [ see Gallo-1 in comb.]
1803 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 94He is a very laconic personage, and has upon him the penphobia.
1824 Southey in Life (1849) I. 125She laboured under a perpetual dustophobia; and a comical disease it was.
1843 Blackw. Mag. LIV. 245That powerful..writer..depicts the same regiphobia as raging among the Parisian Charlatanerie.
1861 Ramsay Remin. i. 41The account given me by my correspondent of the Fife swinophobia is as follows.
1887 Pall Mall G. 17 Dec. 1/1 Confounding it with ‘Germanophobia’, ‘Francophobia’, or as many ‘phobias’ as you like!
1890 Cent. Dict. ,Phobophobia, morbid dread of being alarmed.
1895 tr. Max Nordau's Degeneration 242It was unnecessary for Magnan to give a special name to each sympton of degeneration, and to draw up in array.. the host of ‘phobias’ and ‘manias’. Agoraphobia (fear of open space), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed space), rupophobia (fear of dirt) . [ etc.]
1896 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2The cycling craze has produced the antagonistic disease of cyclophobia.
1902 Ibid. 21 Oct. 2/3There were symptoms in the City attitude of a certain amount of L.C.C.-phobia . [ = dread of the London County Council]
1900 Daily News 15 Aug. 3/1 The professional Anglo⁓phobiac.
1902 Daily Chron. 13 Oct. 5/5Several Anglo⁓phobic deputies have announced their intention of appearing in their official scarves.
-phobia
word-forming element meaning "excessive or irrational fear of," from Latin -phobia and directly from Greek -phobia "panic fear of," from phobos "fear" (see phobia). In widespread popular use with native words from c.1800. Related: -phobic.
ORIGIN: Latin from Greek , from -phobos : see -phobe -ia 1
☞ phobia
-phobia
Suffix
- Used to form nouns meaning fear of a specific thing.
- e.g. claustrophobia
- (analogy) Used to form nouns meaning hate, dislike, contempt, or repression of a specific thing.
- e.g. homophobia
Etymology
From New Latin, from Latin, from Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía) (see ὑδροφοβία (hudrophobía, “fear of water”)), from φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Antonyms
Related terms
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -phobia