How do you create phobias. like closterphobic. how do you think of the beggining of the name?
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Well, it's kinda confusion, because I believe the first word comes from the origin of the word. For example, we know that arachnaphobia is fear of spiders, and that spiders are arachnids, and fear of small spaces is clausterphobia, but a small space isn't called a clauster... Good question!
In English, words originate from a huge variety of sources, but many prefixes (beginnings) and suffixes (endings) come from root words in Greek or Latin. For example, phobia comes from the Latin word "phobos", meaning fear.
In the case of claustrophobia, "clus" means close or closed in Greek, as does "clud". This can be seen in the words "cloister" "closure" and "closet".
Outside of that, other phobias have been named over time, and the more recent ones probably bear less relation to traditional Greek or Latin roots.
Phobia is what we call a suffix. It comes at the end of the word. The part at the beginning of the word is called the prefix. The prefix and the suffix are stuck together with a vowel. Claustrophobia (you spelled it wrong).
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