(Latin: love, loving; fondness for; such as a man for a woman and a woman for a man)

(Greek: love, loving, friendly to, fondness for, attraction to; strong tendency toward, affinity for)

(an uncontrollable desire to take books based on a strong fondness for them)

(Greek: a specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone; also, an excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something that is not safe or advantageous)

(Robert Service and E.B. de Vito, two logophiles, express their fondness for words)