aficionado • (noun) \uh-fish-ee-uh-NAH-doh\

hear it again hear it again

: a person who really likes and appreciates something

Example sentence:
"If you are a jazz aficionado like me," said our music teacher, "then you must know about Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Wynton Marsalis."

Etymology:
English speakers borrowed "aficionado" directly from Spanish. Spanish speakers formed "aficionado" from the verb "aficionar," which means "to inspire affection" and which in turn comes from the noun "aficion," meaning "affection." Both Spanish words trace to the Latin root "afficere," meaning "to influence." Not surprisingly, that Latin word is also the ancestor of our word "affection." Although it shares the same Latin root as "aficionado," "affection" took a different path into English. English speakers adopted "affection" from Anglo-French, the French language spoken in medieval England.

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