It’s an extremely productive root in English, so this worksheet on the Greek word roots phil/o and phile might benefit students across a fairly wide band of ability and understanding to build their vocabularies. They mean love, attracted to, affinity for, and a natural liking.
Which is why you see this root show up in a wide variety of English words like audiophile and bibliophile (respectively, a lover of sound and of books), philanthropist (lover of humanity, which in modern parlance, connotes a willingness to stake capital on the improvement of humanity), and philosophy (love of wisdom).
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