The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφόβος“fear”
- Latin · derived fromvermis“worm”
- English todayvermiphobia
From Latin vermis (“worm”) + -phobia: Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Words from the same roots
Latinvermis all →
verminvarmintvermicellivermisvermiformvermetusvermi-vermicidevermiciousvermifugalvermifugevermiparousvermisol
Ancient Greekφόβος all →
phobiaPhobosxenophobeablutophobeablutophobiaablutophobicblennophobeblennophobiaclimacophobiacoprophobiahodophobichomichlophobianeurophobiaphobo-religiophobiatrypophobia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.