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-phobe

 
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a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia: Anglophobe.
Also, -phobiac.

Origin:
< Gk -phobos, adj. deriv. of phóbos fear, panic
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-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.]
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Word Origin & History

-phobe 
comb. form meaning "fearing," from Fr. -phobe, from L. -phobus, from Gk. -phobos "fearing," from phobos "fear, panic, flight," phobein "put to flight, frighten" (see phobia).
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Medical Dictionary

-phobe suff.
One that fears or is averse to a specified thing: xenophobe.

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