This is one probably for Fraggle. My boyfriend and I were trying to figure out how to create a term for a specific phobia. Specifically we were wondering what the fear of Zombies would be. I thought, maybe, Ambulonecrophobia or Kinetonecrophobia. Then I think it may need to contain "auto" because of a zombie moving itself. Thoughts? ~String
Coprophagophobia Nice typo there Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! lol I meant Corpophagophobia
I don't know enough Greek. If you're trying to come up with a Greek compound for "walking dead" you need the word for "walk."
That's why I combined "walk" (ambulo) and "dead" (necros). Ambulonecrophobia. For example, the evolutionary ancestor to all cetaceans (whales and dolphins) is "ambulocetus" : "walking whale". I think I'm on the right track. Thanks for the help. ~String
"auto" means "self" or "of one's own volition" I do agree that "auto" may need to be in the word, but it gets unwieldy. "Autambulonecrophobia" ~String
when i was a kid (about 18 or so) we used to play a homemade game called latin trivia. we had a latin to english dictionary and we would concatenate different words to come up with really strange diseases, animals, you name it. anyway one player would use the dictionary to generate the "word" and the other would come up with the exotic american equivalent. damn, it's no wonder you're on my friends list string. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
'Zombophobia' does just fine. Although the components of a compound should ideally be in the same language, the word 'phobia' has become so much part of the English language that it is felt as an English word anyway.
Like "television"?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I don't think so. The entire nation is eating chocolate bunnies to celebrate one of them. Sorry. We have people on SciForums who speak Mongolian, but apparently no Greeks.
haha what an interesting coincidence... for my psychology class, i have to invent a phobia and write about it. Ive been working on making some up - although i dont know if the combinations of greek/latin roots ive used make any sense for the fear i intended them to be... coloquiandrointermechanoelevatophobia (with/together-talkative/annoying-human/people-inside-mechanical-lift-phobia) : the fear of being stuck in an elevator with annoying people aliandrophagophobia (other-human/people-eat-phobia) : the fear of being cannibalized facineophobodictaphobia (make-new-fear-word-phobia) : the fear of inventing new phobias do they make sense? anyways... the fear of zombies may possibly be expressed as... anavivanecrophobia? iterovivanecrophobia? animamortucorpaphobia? thats what i can think of, other than whats already been said
You're mixing Latin and Greek radicals. Apparently the rules have been defined, at least for this thread, and you have to stick with all Greek.
