The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπάπυρος“papyrus, paper”
- English todaypapyrophobia
From papyro- + -phobia (“fear, loathing”), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros, “papyrus, paper”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπάπυρος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.