thalassophobia

名词 n.
/θəˌlæ.səʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/|/θəˌlæ.səˈfəʊ.bi.ə/    /θəˌlæ.soʊˈfoʊ.bi.ə/|/θəˌlæ.səˈfoʊ.bi.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep, large bodies of water such as lakes. uncountable
    — “I have been endeavoring all the winter to reason away my antipathy to the sea in order to avail myself of a very favorable occasion I now have of passing it—but I have a kind of thalassophobia that resists all kind of argument”

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa)lbor.
English thalasso-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ-
Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der.
Latin
New Latinbor.
English -phobia
English thalassophobia
From thalasso- + -phobia.
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