triskaidekaphobia

• treiskaidekaphobia, triskaidecaphobia

From triskaideka- (“thirteen”) +‎ -phobia.

• enPR: trĭs'kī-dĕk'ə-fō'bē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɪskaɪdɛkəˈfəʊbi.ə/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊbiə

triskaidekaphobia (uncountable)

1. Fear or dislike of the number thirteen (13).
   • 2017 October 12, Albert Garcia, “What is the word for fear of the number 13? Triskaidekaphobia”, in Calliope Magazine‎^[1], page 3:

     Yet, despite beliefs that triskaidekaphobia began long ago and has been passed down through the centuries, the earliest known reference to Friday the 13th as a dreaded day did not appear until 1913. It is merely a 20th century invention.

   • 2019 December 13, Marika Gerken, “Friday the 13th: How it came to be and why it’s considered unlucky”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The great Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg had such a severe case of triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), he omitted numbering the 13th measure in some of his later works, substituting it with the notation “12a.”

   • 2021 August 12, Christobel Hastings, “Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     There’s even a name to describe the irrational dread of the date: paraskevidekatriaphobia — a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a fear of the number 13.

• triskaidekaphobic
• triskaidekaphobe

• friggatriskaidekaphobia
• paraskavedekatriaphobia / paraskevidekatriaphobia