Etymograph

English

rectophobia

From recto- + -phobia.

Formed from recto + phobia

Proto-Italic *rektos

Latin regō ‘to keep or lead straight, to guide’

Latin rēctus ‘right’

Latin rēctō ‘on the right leaf, on the right page’

English recto

Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- ‘to run, flee’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰógʷos

Proto-Hellenic *pʰógʷos

Ancient Greek φόβος ‘fear’

English phobia

Today it means

noun The fear of rectal disease.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / rectophobia