-misia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ-der.

Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos)der.

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)der.

Ancient Greek -υς (-us)?

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)?

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.

Ancient Greek -ιᾰ (-iă)

Ancient Greek -ειᾰ (-eiă)der.

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

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Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)

Ancient Greek -ειᾰ (-eiă)der.

Latin -iader.

English -ia

English -misia

From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) +‎ -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).