The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφόβος“fear”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμίχλη“mist, fog”
- English todayhomichlophobia
From Ancient Greek ὁμίχλη (homíkhlē, “mist, fog”) + New Latin -phobia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφόβος all →
phobiaPhobosxenophobeablutophobeablutophobiaablutophobicblennophobeblennophobiaclimacophobiacoprophobiahodophobicneurophobiaphobo-religiophobiatrypophobiavermiphobia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.