Talk:Nomatophobia/@comment-176.58.160.32-20160905220329

My comment is about the etymology of this phobia. I don't know who coined the term nomatophobia or whether it is a formally accepted term, but I'm afraid they knew little about proper word formation.

Nomatophobia, as I've read elsewhere, is derived from Greek "onoma", meaning name. The genitive case of the word (from which derivatives are formed) is "onomatos". In any case, it is obviously a mistake to omit the initial "o". Onomatophobia should be the correct name for this phobia (a term that is also in use).

On the other hand, if the term was derived from Latin, it should follow Latin grammar rules, forming the name from "nomen" (genitive case "nominis"), so then it would be nominophobia (or perhaps nominiphobia). This, as far as I know, is not an existing term, so it is clear that the name for this phobia is of Greek origin, but it was formed mistakenly, disregarding Greek grammar rules.

Is there a way that this mistake could be corrected, I wonder?