The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀγορά“assembly”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromagoraphobia
- English todayagoraphobia
From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). By surface analysis, agora + -phobia. Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀγορά all →
agoraagoraphiliaagorismagorist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.