Etymology

taphophobic

T1A1P3H4O1P3H4O1B3I1C3

Today it means: Relating to a fear of being buried alive Full definition →

Ancient Greek τάφος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτάφος“grave”
  2. English todaytaphophobic

From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”), + -phobic.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτάφος all →

taphonomytaphophiliabibliotaphtafone-taphtapho-taphoflorataphophiletaphophobetaphophobiaTaphos

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.