Etymology

bathmophobia

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Today it means: The fear of stairs and steep slopes. Full definition →

Ancient Greek βαθμός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβαθμός“step”
  2. English todaybathmophobia

From Ancient Greek βαθμός (bathmós, “step”) + -phobia.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβαθμός all →

bathmism

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.