bibliophile

First attested in 1824. From French bibliophile, from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”). Surface analysis biblio- +‎ -phile.

bibliophile (plural bibliophiles)

1. One who loves books.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎, page R28:

     [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...

2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bibliophile.

• booklover

• bibliophobe

• bibliophilia
• arctophile, audiophile, conspirophile, museophile, vexillophile, videophile

• museophile
• bookworm