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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-phile

▶combining form denoting a person or thing having a fondness for or tendency towards a specified thing: bibliophile.

– origin from Gk philos ‘loving’.

'-phile' also found in these Oxford entries:

logophile - myrmecophile - -phil - psychrophile

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