Hoplophobia

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[Pelagius of Asturias]

Hoplophobia, n. Irrational, morbid fear of guns (c. 1980, coined by Col. Jeff Cooper, from the Greek hoplites, weapon; see his book Principles of Personal Defense). May cause sweating, faintness, discomfort, rapid pulse, nausea, sleeplessness, nondescript fears, more, at mere thought of guns. Presence of working firearms may cause panic attack. Hoplophobe, hoplophobic.

[Yankee]

There is no diacritical marker at the beginning of the word “oplo”, at least not in modern Greek. I do not have knowledge of ancient Greek. (my parents and grandparents were not that old. LOL).

In modern Greek there is no “h” sound as in in the English words “house” or “happy”.

There is as you say, in modern Greek the “rough breath” sound as in the word “hriso” meaning gold, “hara” meaning joy and “htapodi” meaning octopus but these words begin with the letter “chi”, a character that resembles the English letter X.

Still the modern Greek word for weapon is pronounced O-plo and the word for hippopotamus is pronounced ee-po-PO-ta-mos.

No “rough breath” sound in these words at all.

If you are speaking of ancient Greek, then I defer to your knowledge.

[nonsporting]

I was refering to ancient Greek (classical Attic and Koine). I believe, when Cooper coined his term (hoplophobia), he was using ancient Greek constituents.

There has been significant phonological change in the language and I, likewise, defer to your knowledge of modern Greek.

So, you are Greek. Opa!

[Yankee]

I screwed up the derivation of of the word hippopotamus. Ippos was the ancient Greek word for horse, so ee-po-PO-ta-mos means “horse (of the) river” not "under the river" as I mistakenly said above.

I confused Ippo for the modern Greek word for "under" or "beneath" which is also pronounced "ee-PO". It is where the English prefix hypo comes from as in hypodermic (under the skin).

[Yankee]

Greek heritage, second generation American. All four grandparents came from Greece beginning in 1917.

Yia sou file.

(To your health friend)

[Voice of Reason88]

Actually I’ve seen a lot of AR’s being sold by private sales at gun shows lately.

It would seem like a lot of people bought some as an investment early in the year and are now selling them off.

If that’s all they had.. they may need to buy some more later on when needed.

[Shooter 2.5]

It’s that time honored tradition. Buy high and sell low.

[Joe 6-pack]

Hope-lophobia

[Dead Corpse]

pw3nd... ;-)

[Still Thinking]

Hoplophobia should not be confused with hooplophobia which is an irrational fear of basketball.

From which I've unaccountably been suffering from for the last seven months.

[TylerA]

That’s usually not how that is supposed to work. The point really is that the records are going to show people buying a lot of guns – some early this year or before, and some later on.

Having sold some of those guns privately earlier this year and buying more, the records are going to be inaccurate.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic was posted 12/1/2008. Thanks Pelagius of Asturias.