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Romanophile en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Romano- (“Rome”) + -phile.

Meanings

  1. One who has a love of Ancient Rome.
    • A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world. 2012, Jon E. Lewis, Rome: The Autobiography:
    • Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles. 2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires, page 50:

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Antonyms

Romanophobe

Relateds

Romanophilism · Romanophilia · Romanophilic

Romanophile en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Romano- (“Romania”) + -phile.

Meanings

  1. One who has a love of Romania.
    • Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […] 2010, Paul R. Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, page 644:

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Romanophile en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Romano- (“Romani”) + -phile.

Meanings

  1. One who has a love of the Roma people.
    • George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow". 1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 199:

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Romanophobe