Where does “xenophobic” come from?
Xenophobic comes from English -phobic, English -ic, French -ique, Latin -icus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, a suffix forming adjectives.
xenophobic (English): Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear...
Definitions
- Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear...
Ancestry of “xenophobic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ancient Greek | ξένος | foreign; strange, unusual; of parties giving or... |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ἐλαύνω | drive, set in motion; ride a horse, drive a... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -τός | creates verbal adjectives of possibility, either... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
Words derived from “xenophobic”