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-phobe

  1. a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia:

    Anglophobe.



-phobe

combining form

  1. indicating a person or thing that fears or hates

    xenophobe

    Germanophobe



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Derived Forms

  • -phobic, combining_form:in_adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -phobe1

From Greek -phobos, adjectival derivative of phóbos “panic fear”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -phobe1

from Greek -phobos fearing

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