Talk:gerascophobia

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gerascophobia

Fear of growing old... only in word lists... you know the drill. Equinox ◑ 20:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Cited. There's an etymology on the Wikipedia article. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 00:41, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

That etymology is wrong. The actual Greek form used was γηράσκω (gēráskō, “I grow old”). The coiner obviously looked it up in a dictionary without knowing any of the grammar and just added phobia to the lemma form- with ungrammatical results. If Ancient Greek didn't have such a truly spectacular array of methods to create nouns from verbs, I might understand- but it does. This just shows how amateurish these phobia names often are ("fear of I grow old"? Yeesh!).Chuck Entz (talk) 02:14, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

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