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