Logophile

The word logophile comes from two roots, both Greek, all the more sophisticated. The first root is the word logos, which literally means ‘word’ but practically covers a much larger, formal message. Logos often lives in bigger words that denote some kind of body of knowledge, like psychology (the logos of the psyche) or sociology (the logos of society).

The second part of logophile is the word philos, meaning loving or dear. It always turns up in words that describe someone’s passion for some specific subject or issue or category, like theophile (lover of God), ailurophile (lover of cats), or xenophile (lover of other, strange or foreign things).