The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφόβος“fear”
- New Latin · derived from-phobia
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλῖμαξ“ladder, staircase”
- English todayclimacophobia
From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase”) + New Latin -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκλῖμαξ all →
climaxclimacus
Ancient Greekφόβος all →
phobiaPhobosxenophobeablutophobeablutophobiaablutophobicblennophobeblennophobiacoprophobiahodophobichomichlophobianeurophobiaphobo-religiophobiatrypophobiavermiphobia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.