phobia

phobia
phobia 1786, "fear, horror, aversion," Modern Latin, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Gk. -phobia (in widespread popular use with native words from c.1800), from phobos "fear," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (Cf. phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE root *bhegw- "to run" (Cf. Lith. begu "to flee," O.C.S. begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run," O.N. bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895.

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