Romanophile

English Etymology 1 From en Romano-<id:Rome><t:Rome> -phile. Noun One who has a love of Ancient Rome. en Romanophobe en 2010 Timothy Parsons The Rule of Empires 50 Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles. en 2012 Jon E. Lewis Rome: The Autobiography A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world. Related terms en Romanophilia en Romanophilic en Romanophilism Etymology 2 From en Romano-<id:Romania><t:Romania> -phile. Noun One who has a love of Romania. en Romanophobe en 2010 Paul R. Magocsi A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples 644 Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc Etymology 3 From en Romano-<id:Romani><t:Romani> -phile. Noun One who has a love of the Roma people. en Romanophobe en 1997 Yaron Matras; Peter Bakker; Khristo Kyuchukov The Typology and Dialectology of Romani 199 George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".