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Francophile - equivalent word???
What is the equivalent word for people who like all things Spanish, Italian or German?? Words for other countries are welcome too. Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Since the convention is to place a nationalising adjective before -ophile each country should be catered for but only a few have 'made it' into the dictionary, including
English - Anglophile
Foreign - Xenophile
European - Euro...
German - Germano...
Spanish - Hispano...
Russian - Russo...
Slavs - Slavo...
Japanese - Japano...
These are in a class of words that used to drive my Classics master crazy - ophile is a postfix/morpheme whatever the linguists call it nowadays - and comes from Greek, phileo - I like/love
and the other bits are clearly Latin based. - Uuuugh!
philistine wordsmiths ! how they used to be hated in the nineteenth century ! bring back the Birch!
PP
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