-phobe
-phobe terminal el. — F. — L. -phobus, Gr. -phobos fearing, f. phóbos fear, as in hydrophobe, and many comps. with national names, as Anglophobe;
so -phobia (— L. — Gr. -phobíā) in the sense ‘dread’, ‘horror’, as in hydrophobia, and Anglophobia, etc., some of which are modelled on F. words in -phobie.
so -phobia (— L. — Gr. -phobíā) in the sense ‘dread’, ‘horror’, as in hydrophobia, and Anglophobia, etc., some of which are modelled on F. words in -phobie.
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