Talk:Melanoheliophobia/@comment-120.29.75.253-20151113091259

Melano- is a combining form for the Greek μαύρε, meaning "black", but tyrano- is not a combining form for "hole", but for "lord; tyrant". Melanotyranophobia is, literally, "fear of black tyrant". The Greek combining form for "hole" is tryp(o)-, from τρύπα trypa. The word melanotrypophobia would still not be correct, though, as the term "black hole" would not be simply backformed from the combination of two English words, but from its conceptual term, which in Greek is μαύρε ΄ηλιε "black sun". Melanoheliophobia would, then, be "fear of black suns (black holes)".