Logophile
/ˈlɒɡ.ə.faɪl/noun
A person who loves words.
Did you know?Logophile is built from Greek logos, a word with a huge ancient life spanning “word,” “speech,” “reason,” and “account,” so loving words once meant loving thought itself.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
lógos
“word, speech, reason, account”
Ancient Greek
Greek
phílos
“loving, dear, beloved”
Modern formation
English
logophile
“a lover of words”
20th Century
English
logophile
“a person especially fond of words, vocabulary, or language”