Photophobia=فوبيا الضوء

Photophobia=فوبيا الضوء

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

photophobia (n.)

1799, from photo- + -phobia. Related: Photophobic.

photo-

word-forming element meaning "light" or "photographic" or "photoelectric," from Gk. photo-, comb. form of phos (gen. photos) "light," from PIE root *bha- "to shine" (see phantasm).

-phobia

word-forming element meaning "excessive or irrational fear of," from L. -phobia and directly from Gk. -phobia "panic fear of," from phobos "fear" (see phobia). In widespread popular use with native words from c.1800. Related: -phobic.

phobia (n.)

"irrational fear, horror, aversion," 1786, perhaps on model of similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Gk. -phobia, from phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (cf. phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE root *bhegw- "to run" (cf. Lith. begu "to flee," O.C.S. begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run," O.N. bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895.