The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφόβος“fear”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromξένος“foreign, strange”
- English todayxenophobe
From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekξένος all →
Ancient Greekφόβος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.