Where does “neophobic” come from?

neophobic (English) comes from English phobic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

neophobic (English): A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or...

Definitions

  1. A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or...

Ancestry of “neophobic”, step by step

neophobic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English phobic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishphobicRelating to a phobia; Experiencing or expressing...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English Neo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishNeoAn optimized German keyboard layout supporting nearly all Latin-based alphabets
2Englishneo-new; contemporary; Having a structure, similar to...
3Ancient Greekνέοςyoung; youthful; new, fresh
4Latinfēlēscat
5Hungarianfélto fear, to be afraid of something; to fear...
6Proto-Uralicpidetall
7Finnishpitääto hold, grasp, grip; to keep, take; to like, be...
8Proto-Finnicpitädäkto hold, to grasp; to keep
9Proto-Finno-Ugricpitä-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én