-phobe


-phobe

suff. One that fears or is averse to a specified thing: ailurophobe.
[French, from Latin -phobus, from Greek -phobos, fearing, from phobos, fear; see bhegw- in Indo-European roots.]

-phobe

n combining form indicating a person or thing that fears or hates: Germanophobe; xenophobe. [from Greek -phobos fearing] -phobic adj combining form

-phobe

or -phobiac,

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