aficionado

Borrowed from Spanish aficionado, past participle of aficionar (“to inspire affection”).

• IPA^(key): /əfɪsjəˈnɑːdəʊ/, /əfɪʃjəˈnɑːdəʊ/

aficionado (plural aficionados or aficionadoes or aficionadi)

1. (obsolete) An amateur bullfighter. [19th c.]
2. A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee. [from 19th c.]
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:

     To the "closet" taxonomist and aficionado of nomenclatural exercises, such emphasis may seem an intrusion.

• -phile

Borrowed from Spanish aficionado.

aficionado m (plural aficionados)

1. aficionado (all senses)

From aficionar.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /afiθjoˈnado/, [afiθjoˈnaðo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /afisjoˈnado/, [afisjoˈnaðo]

aficionado (feminine singular aficionada, masculine plural aficionados, feminine plural aficionadas)

1. fond
2. amateur

aficionado m (plural aficionados, feminine aficionada, feminine plural aficionadas)

1. fan, hobbyist, aficionado (person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby)

   Synonym: fan

   Soy un gran aficionado al beisbol. ― I'm a big baseball fan.

2. amateur

   Synonym: amateur

• → English: aficionado
• → French: aficionado

• “aficionado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.