Etymology

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Ancient Greek φιλία
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφιλία“(fraternal) love”
  2. English today-phily

From Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφιλία all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.