Etymology

toxophilite

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Ancient Greek τόξον
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτόξον“bow”
  2. English todaytoxophilite

From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.

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