Etymology

philozoist

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Today it means: a lover of all forms of life (as opposed to only humans or those life forms useful to humans) Full definition →

Ancient Greek φίλος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφίλος“beloved”
  2. English todayphilozoist

From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”) + -ist.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφίλος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.