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Knowing the meaning of the root word affixes in the word bibliophile helps the reader know that the words means

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Someone that loves books or collects them because he or she loves them.

Step-by-step explanation:

The word bibliophile has a root and an affix. The root is Biblio, which means book, and the suffix -phile means love. If we combine the root word Biblio with the suffix phile, the word bibliophile means love for books.

The word Biblio has a Greek origin, that is why it is not similar to the English word book, which has a Germanic origin. The fact that the root word comes from the Greek language makes it harder to know the meaning of the word. But if you know it, any derivational words that come from the addition of a suffix or a prefix, which are the two types of affixes, will be easy to deduce.

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