The story
- Latin · derived frompittacium
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπιττάκιον“*sticker”
- English todaypittakionophobia
Coined by hypnotherapist Peter Field in 2009. Field gives the word's formation as Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “*sticker”) + -o- + -phobia (used to form nouns meaning the fear of a specific thing), as a neoclassical compound. In reality, this Ancient Greek word does not mean sticker, but Latin pittacium does mean label.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.