The story
- Latin · derived from-icus
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλύω“to loosen, to dissolve”
- English todaylyophobic
From lyo- (“solvent, dispersion”) + -phobic (“having aversion to”), from Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) + Latin -icus.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.