The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφίλος“friend, lover”
- English todayphilhellenism
< Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “friend, lover”) and ἑλληνισμός (hellēnismós, “hellenism”)
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφίλος all →
phil--phile-philic-philousphilozoist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.