aporofobia
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Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish aporofobia.
Pronunciation
Noun
aporofobia inan
- (rare) aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
Declension
Declension of aporofobia (inanimate, ending in -a)
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | aporofobia | aporofobia | aporofobiak |
| ergative | aporofobiak | aporofobiak | aporofobiek |
| dative | aporofobiari | aporofobiari | aporofobiei |
| genitive | aporofobiaren | aporofobiaren | aporofobien |
| comitative | aporofobiarekin | aporofobiarekin | aporofobiekin |
| causative | aporofobiarengatik | aporofobiarengatik | aporofobiengatik |
| benefactive | aporofobiarentzat | aporofobiarentzat | aporofobientzat |
| instrumental | aporofobiaz | aporofobiaz | aporofobiez |
| inessive | aporofobiatan | aporofobian | aporofobietan |
| locative | aporofobiatako | aporofobiako | aporofobietako |
| allative | aporofobiatara | aporofobiara | aporofobietara |
| terminative | aporofobiataraino | aporofobiaraino | aporofobietaraino |
| directive | aporofobiatarantz | aporofobiarantz | aporofobietarantz |
| destinative | aporofobiatarako | aporofobiarako | aporofobietarako |
| ablative | aporofobiatatik | aporofobiatik | aporofobietatik |
| partitive | aporofobiarik | — | — |
| prolative | aporofobiatzat | — | — |
Galician
Etymology
From Spanish aporofobia.
Noun
aporofobia f (uncountable)
- aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
Further reading
- “aporofobia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Portuguese
Etymology
From Spanish aporofobia.
Pronunciation
Noun
aporofobia f (uncountable)
- aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
Further reading
- “aporofobia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “aporofobia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “aporofobia”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “aporofobia”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -fobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.[1][2]
Noun
aporofobia f (uncountable)
- (rare) aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
- 2003, Luis Enrique Gamboa Umaña, Los retos de la ciudadanía y de la gobernabilidad en la globalización:
- Y se puede coincidir con Cortina en que el gran obstáculo para el tema de la ciudadanía lo constituyen los pobres, en realidad, la aporofobia: el odio al pobre, al débil, al menesteroso.
- And with Cortina it can be agreed that the great obstacle to the matter of citizenship is the poor, though in reality, aporophobia: hatred of the poor, the weak, the needy.
References
Further reading
- “aporofobia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10