Etymology

spanophilia

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Ancient Greek σπᾰνός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσπᾰνός“rare”
  2. English todayspanophilia

From Ancient Greek σπᾰνός (spănós, “rare”) + -philia.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσπᾰνός all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.