Francophile - equivalent word???

[Sweet G]

What is the equivalent word for people who like all things Spanish, Italian or German?? Words for other countries  are welcome too. Thanks.

[Quizmonster]

Hispanophile, Italophile and Germanophile for the first three.

[kempie]

Since the convention is to place a nationalising adjective before -ophile each country should be catered for but only a few have 'made it' into the dictionary, including

English - Anglophile

Foreign - Xenophile

European - Euro...

German - Germano...

Spanish - Hispano...

Russian - Russo...

Slavs - Slavo...

Japanese - Japano...

[Quizmonster]

Oops! Just pipped you at the post on the initial three, K.

[kempie]

I'd missed out Italophile anyway QM

[THECORBYLOON]

Chinese-Sinophile

[Peter Pedant]

These are in a class of words that used to drive my Classics master crazy -  ophile is a postfix/morpheme whatever the linguists call it nowadays - and comes from Greek, phileo - I like/love

and the other bits are clearly Latin based. - Uuuugh!

philistine wordsmiths ! how they used to be hated in the nineteenth century ! bring back the Birch!

 

PP

[Sweet G]

Thanks Guys

[Emily Ball]

Replace the 'phile' with 'phobe' and you've got the opposites.