-phobiacomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. aquaphobia n.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -phobia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin -phobia (in e.g. hydrophobia hydrophobia n.) < Hellenistic Greek -ϕοβία (in e.g. ὑδροϕοβία ) < -ϕόβος (see -phobe comb. form) + -ία -ia suffix¹.First recorded in the Latin loan hydrophobia n.: this is probably the model for subsequent English formations. Formations within English are found from the 17th cent. (in an isolated example); a handful date from the 18th cent.; from the 19th cent. they are very abundant. Combined with a wide variety of first elements: these may be ultimately of Greek or Latin or English origin. Some pairs of synonyms occur with respectively Latin and Greek first elements, as aquaphobia n., feminophobia n., gynophobia n. at gyno- comb. form , and hydrophobia n. Several formations derive from the names of peoples, as Anglophobia n., Gallophobia n. at Gallo- comb. form¹ 2b, Germanophobia n., Russophobia n. Occasionally modern formations retaining the two elements separately, as school phobia n. at school n.¹ Compounds 5a, should perhaps be regarded as compounds with phobia n. as the second element. Compare French -phobie (formations in which are found from the early 19th cent.). A selection of occasional formations is illustrated below.

Forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’.

ΚΠ

1803 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 94 He is a very laconic personage, and has upon him the penphobia.

1824 Life (1849) I. 125 She laboured under a perpetual dustophobia; and a comical disease it was.

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 245 That powerful..writer..depicts the same regiphobia as raging among the Parisian Charlatanerie.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2 The cycling craze has produced the antagonistic disease of cyclophobia.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 2/3 There were symptoms in the City attitude of a certain amount of L.C.C.-phobia [= dread of the London County Council].

1928 A. Huxley Let. 9 Nov. (1969) 304 When my epistolophobia becomes..acute I will apply to you for..aid.

1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 85/2 (advt.) Swim-o-phobia? Cure it forever. Our private lessons by professional instructors will have you phobia-free and swimming in no time.

1997 Independent 25 Mar. 119/4 It was immediately obvious that screening isn't very accurate, that an abnormal smear is rarely anything to worry about but we've sown the seeds of Big C-phobia anyway.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-phobia
释义	-phobiacomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. aquaphobia n. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -phobia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin -phobia (in e.g. hydrophobia hydrophobia n.) < Hellenistic Greek -ϕοβία (in e.g. ὑδροϕοβία ) < -ϕόβος (see -phobe comb. form) + -ία -ia suffix¹.First recorded in the Latin loan hydrophobia n.: this is probably the model for subsequent English formations. Formations within English are found from the 17th cent. (in an isolated example); a handful date from the 18th cent.; from the 19th cent. they are very abundant. Combined with a wide variety of first elements: these may be ultimately of Greek or Latin or English origin. Some pairs of synonyms occur with respectively Latin and Greek first elements, as aquaphobia n., feminophobia n., gynophobia n. at gyno- comb. form , and hydrophobia n. Several formations derive from the names of peoples, as Anglophobia n., Gallophobia n. at Gallo- comb. form¹ 2b, Germanophobia n., Russophobia n. Occasionally modern formations retaining the two elements separately, as school phobia n. at school n.¹ Compounds 5a, should perhaps be regarded as compounds with phobia n. as the second element. Compare French -phobie (formations in which are found from the early 19th cent.). A selection of occasional formations is illustrated below. Forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’. ΚΠ 1803 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 94 He is a very laconic personage, and has upon him the penphobia. 1824 Life (1849) I. 125 She laboured under a perpetual dustophobia; and a comical disease it was. 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 245 That powerful..writer..depicts the same regiphobia as raging among the Parisian Charlatanerie. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2 The cycling craze has produced the antagonistic disease of cyclophobia. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 2/3 There were symptoms in the City attitude of a certain amount of L.C.C.-phobia [= dread of the London County Council]. 1928 A. Huxley Let. 9 Nov. (1969) 304 When my epistolophobia becomes..acute I will apply to you for..aid. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 85/2 (advt.) Swim-o-phobia? Cure it forever. Our private lessons by professional instructors will have you phobia-free and swimming in no time. 1997 Independent 25 Mar. 119/4 It was immediately obvious that screening isn't very accurate, that an abnormal smear is rarely anything to worry about but we've sown the seeds of Big C-phobia anyway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < comb. form1803
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