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Origin and history of technophile

technophile(n.)

"technology enthusiast; one who favors technology," 1968, from techno- + -phile.

also from 1968

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-phile

also -phil, word-forming element of Greek origin meaning "one that loves, likes, or is attracted to;" via French -phile and Medieval Latin -philus in this sense, from Greek -philos, a common element in personal names (such as Theophilos), from philos "loving, friendly, dear; related, own," which is related to philein "to love," a word of unknown origin. According to Beekes, the original meaning was "own, accompanying" rather than "beloved."

techno-

word-forming element active from mid-19c. and meaning "art, craft, skill," later "technical, technology," from Latinized form of Greek tekhno-, combining form of tekhnē "art, skill, craftsmanship, craft in work; method, system, an art, a system or method of making or doing," from PIE *teks-na- "craft" (of weaving or fabricating), from suffixed (or reduplicated) form of root *teks- "to weave," also "to fabricate." The full range of the Greek word is difficult to translate into English.

[Greek Technē] includes both the fine arts (music) and the practical arts (cookery); all forms of skilled craftsmanship (ship-building) and various professional activities (navigation and soldiering); besides activities calling for scientific skill (medicine). It may thus be said to cover any skilled activity with its rules of operation, the knowledge of which is acquired by training. [note in Sir Desmond Lee translation of Plato's "Republic"] 
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    heaven
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    1706, "cross-shaped, having the form of an X," from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the interior of the knee-joint (which cross each other), from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross" (see crux). The meaning "decisive, critical, finally disproving one of two altern
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    1875, from Italian Mafia "Sicilian secret society of criminals" (the prevailing sense outside Sicily), earlier, "spirit of hostility to the law and its ministers." A member is a mafioso (1870), fem. mafiosa, plural mafiosi, and this may be the older word in this sense. Arabic is
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    "act of exacerbating; state of being exacerbated; increase of violence or virulence, aggravation," c. 1400, exacerbacioun, from Late Latin exacerbationem (nominative exacerbatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin exacerbare "exasperate, irritate, provoke," from e
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