chronomentrophobia

The story

1. Latin · derived from-mentum“means of, instrument, medium”
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος“time”
3. English todaychronomentrophobia

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) and, in the rarer form without the n (chronometrophobia), μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (compare English chronometer (“device for measuring time”)), whereas in this form claimed in phobia lists to be from Latin -mentum (“means of, instrument, medium”), which, however, does not explain the r, thus likely originated as a misspelling; + -phobia.

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