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Meaning & History
Means "lover of learning", derived from the Ancient Greek words φίλος (philos) meaning "friend, lover", and μαθ-/μανθάνειν (math-/manthanein) meaning "to learn".This was the name of one of the central characters in Daemonologie, a medieval compendium on witchcraft written by King James VI of Scotland and later England.