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-phile

suffix
/faɪ̯l/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor. Latin -philalbor. English -phile Learned borrowing from Latin -phila, from Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).

  1. derived from φίλος
  2. learned borrowing from -phila

Definitions

  1. Forming nouns and adjectives meaning "loving", "friendly", or "friend".

    • Scott is such a bibliophile that he won't even put that book down.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -phile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA