claustrophobia
English
noun
Definitions
- The fear of closed, tight places.
Etymology
Derived from Latin claustrum (enclosure, bar, place shut in, bolt, a shut in place, closed space, gate, a shut-in place, cloister) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Gloss
hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abocclusion English
- benocclusion English
- claustral English
- claustrophilia English
- claustrophobic English
- claustrophobically English
- claustrum English
- clavichord English
- cloisterless English
- cloisterlike English
- cloistress English
- cloyingly English
- disocclusion English
- encloister English
- exclusive English
- foreclosee English
- inclusively English
- inclusiveness English
- inclusivity English
- malocclusion English
- non-exclusive English
- nonoccluded English
- nonocclusion English
- occluder English
- occlusive English
- overinclusivity English
- postocclusion English
- pre-occluded English
- preocclusion English
- reocclude English
- reocclusion English
- unoccluded English
- vasoocclusion English
- *clostrum Latin
- *clōstrum Latin
- circumcludo Latin
- claudo Latin
- claustellum Latin
- claustrarius Latin
- claustrum Latin
- clausum Latin
- clausus Latin
- clavis Latin
- clostrum Latin
- clāvis Latin
- clāvus Latin
- clāvīcula Latin
- excludo Latin
- exclusio Latin
- exclusivus Latin
- exclusiō Latin
- exclūdō Latin
- includo Latin
- inclusio Latin
- inclusio, inclusionis Latin
- inclūdere, inclūdō Latin
- inclūdō Latin
- inclūsus Latin
- occludo Latin
- occludĕre Latin
- occlūdō Latin
- occlūsiōnem, occlūsiō Latin
- chiostro Italian
- claustro Italian
- claustrer French
- claustrophobie French
- cloisonné French
- claustro Spanish, Castilian
- claustrofobia Spanish, Castilian
- κλείς Ancient Greek
- φόβος Ancient Greek
- *(s)kleh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kleh₂w-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *kleh₂ud-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *klāw- Proto-Indo-European
- claustro Portuguese
- claustrofobia Portuguese
- kloster Swedish
- clauster Old English
- forclȳsan Old English
- clástrafóibe Irish
- klaustr Old Norse
- cloistre Old French
- cloistrier Old French
- claustre Catalan, Valencian
- klaustur Icelandic
- claustrofobia Galician
- klōstar Old High German
- klosteris Latvian
- cloistral Middle French
- קלאוסטרופוביה Hebrew (modern)
- claustra Old Portuguese
- *klāwos Proto-Celtic
- klôster Middle Low German
- klōster Middle Low German
- achlwedd Proto-Brythonic
- κλᾳ̃θρα grc-dor
- occluder
- claustrum
- cloyingly
- reocclude
- occlusive
- claustral
- exclusive
- encloister
- unoccluded
- foreclosee
- cloistress
- clavichord
- inclusivity
- abocclusion
- reocclusion
- nonoccluded
- inclusively
- disocclusion
- cloisterlike
- cloisterless
- benocclusion
- malocclusion
- preocclusion
- pre-occluded
- nonocclusion
- non-exclusive
- inclusiveness
- vasoocclusion
- postocclusion
- claustrophobic
- claustrophilia
- overinclusivity
- claustrophobically