hydrophobe
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French hydrophobe, from Latin hydrophobus, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφόβος (hudrophóbos), from ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear, dread”).[1]
Noun
[edit]hydrophobe (plural hydrophobes)
- (chemistry) A hydrophobic compound or material.
- Someone who is affected by hydrophobia (a fear or aversion to water).
- 1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:
- The shock of the meeting triremes was tremendous, and in a moment the poor little hydrophobes were spluttering in the pond: […]
- 2006 July 2, Frank Gannon, “The Deep”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-16:
- If I talk to 10 people, there is usually a fellow hydrophobe among them. It is hard to pick them out, because a person who is afraid of water looks very much like a normal person. But, from talking with fellow hydrophobes, I have discovered something we almost all share: more times than not, our fear of water stems from one intensely bad experience that came during our childhoods.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “hydrophobe, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]hydrophobe (plural hydrophobes)
- hydrophobic (lacking an affinity for water)
Noun
[edit]hydrophobe m or f by sense (plural hydrophobes)
Further reading
[edit]- “hydrophobe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
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Adjective
[edit]hydrophobe
- inflection of hydrophob:
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hydrophobe
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