Etymology

-philous

Today it means: having an affinity, attraction, preference or love of something Full definition →

Ancient Greek φίλος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφίλος“love”
  2. English today-philous

From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ous.

Words from the same roots

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