-phobecomb. form

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. technophobe n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French -phobe.

Etymology: < French -phobe (formations in which are found from at least the first half of the 19th cent.) < classical Latin -phobus (in e.g. hydrophobus hydrophobe n. and adj.) < Hellenistic Greek -ϕόβος -fearing, -dreading (in e.g. ὑδροϕόβος hydrophobe n. and adj.), combining form of ancient Greek ϕόβος fear < an ablaut variant of the base of ϕέβεσθαι to flee < the same Indo-European base as Old Church Slavonic běgati, běžati to run, flee, Russian begat′, bežat′ to run, flee, beg running, run, Lithuanian bėgti to run, bėga, bėgis running, run, course, Latvian bēgšana flight. Compare German -phob (formations in which are found from the 19th cent.).Earliest in the French loan Anglophobe n. Formations within English are found from the second half of the 19th cent. A large number are formed from the names of peoples, as Russophobe n., Gallophobe n. at Gallo- comb. form¹ 2b.

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1. Forming nouns and (rare) adjectives with the sense ‘(a person) having a fear of or aversion to the person or thing denoted by the first element’. Cf. -phobiac comb. form, -phobic comb. form, -phobist comb. form.

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2. Biology, Chemistry, etc. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘(a thing) having an aversion to a certain substance or class of substances, a particular kind of environment, etc., denoted by the first element’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

单词	-phobe
释义	-phobecomb. form Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. technophobe n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French -phobe. Etymology: < French -phobe (formations in which are found from at least the first half of the 19th cent.) < classical Latin -phobus (in e.g. hydrophobus hydrophobe n. and adj.) < Hellenistic Greek -ϕόβος -fearing, -dreading (in e.g. ὑδροϕόβος hydrophobe n. and adj.), combining form of ancient Greek ϕόβος fear < an ablaut variant of the base of ϕέβεσθαι to flee < the same Indo-European base as Old Church Slavonic běgati, běžati to run, flee, Russian begat′, bežat′ to run, flee, beg running, run, Lithuanian bėgti to run, bėga, bėgis running, run, course, Latvian bēgšana flight. Compare German -phob (formations in which are found from the 19th cent.).Earliest in the French loan Anglophobe n. Formations within English are found from the second half of the 19th cent. A large number are formed from the names of peoples, as Russophobe n., Gallophobe n. at Gallo- comb. form¹ 2b. Categories » 1. Forming nouns and (rare) adjectives with the sense ‘(a person) having a fear of or aversion to the person or thing denoted by the first element’. Cf. -phobiac comb. form, -phobic comb. form, -phobist comb. form. Categories » 2. Biology, Chemistry, etc. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘(a thing) having an aversion to a certain substance or class of substances, a particular kind of environment, etc., denoted by the first element’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < comb. form
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