-phobe

-phobe

suff.

One that fears or is averse to a specified thing: ailurophobe.

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[French, from Latin -phobus, from Greek -phobos, fearing, from phobos, fear; see bheg^w- in Indo-European roots.]

-phobe

n combining form

indicating a person or thing that fears or hates: Germanophobe; xenophobe.

[from Greek -phobos fearing]

-phobic adj combining form

-phobe

or -phobiac,

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

[< Greek -phobos, adj. derivative of phóbos fear, panic]

Translations

-phobe

n suf → -phobe(r) mf, → -feind(in) m(f); Anglophobe → Anglophobe(r) mf, → Englandfeind(in) m(f)