-phobe
a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia:
anglophobe.
also, -phobiac.
-phobe
combining form
indicating a person or thing that fears or hates germanophobe, xenophobe
derived forms
-phobic, combining_form:in_adjective
word origin
from greek -phobos fearing
-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).
-phobe suff.
one that fears or is averse to a specified thing: xenophobe.
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