-phobe

-phobe
comb. form forming nouns and adjectives denoting fear or dislike of what is specified (xenophobe).
Etymology: F f. L -phobus f. Gk -phobos f. phobos fear

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noun combining form (-s)
Etymology: Greek -phobos -fearing, from phobos fear, flight
: one having a (specified) phobia

Anglophobe

chromophobe

heliophobe

photophobe

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a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia: Anglophobe.
Also, -phobiac.
[ < Gk -phobos, adj. deriv. of phóbos fear, panic]

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-phobe combining form
Denoting someone who has a (specified) phobia
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Main Entry: ↑phobia

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-phobe UK [fəʊb] US [foʊb] suffix
used for making nouns meaning someone who dislikes or who is afraid of someone or something

Europhobe

(=someone who dislikes European countries or does not want close political links with them)

an arachnophobe

(=someone with a strong fear of spiders)
Thesaurus: suffixeshyponym

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combining form. a person who has fear, aversion, or hatred toward _____: »

Anglophobe = a person who fears or hates England or the English.

╂[< French -phobe, learned borrowing from Latin -phobus < Greek -phóbos fearing < phóbos panic, fear]

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comb. form denoting a person having a fear or dislike of what is specified

homophobe | xenophobe

Origin:
from French, via Latin -phobus from Greek -phobos ‘fearing’, from phobos ‘fear’

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/ˌfoʊb/ noun combining form
: a person who dislikes or is afraid of something or someone

technophobe [=a person who is afraid of technology]

arachnophobe [=a person who is afraid of spiders]

— compare ↑-phile

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(in nouns) a person who dislikes a particular thing or particular people

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Anglophobe

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xenophobe

compare ↑-phile
 
Word Origin:
[-phobe] from French, via Latin -phobus from Greek -phobos ‘fearing’, from phobos ‘fear’.

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-phobe
a. Fr. -phobe, ad. L. -phob-us, a. Gr. -ϕόβος -fearing, -dreading, adj. ending, f. ϕόβος fear; as in ὑδροϕόβ-ος, hȳdrophob-us, hydrophobe, lit. ‘one who has a horror of water’. Also in modern words formed in Fr. or Eng. by analogy, as Anglophobe, Russophobe.

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