Origin: Greek suffix -phobia
Hydrophobia has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids
a morbid fear of water
an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.