philomath

Meaning

Noun

• A lover of learning; a scholar.
• An astrologer or predictor.

Origin

• First indubitably attested ante 1643 (perhaps antedated to 1611); from the Ancient Greek φιλομαθής, from φίλος + μάθη, from μανθάνω; compare opsimath, philomathematic, and polymath.