hippophile

From hippo- +‎ -phile.

hippophile (plural hippophiles)

1. A person who loves horses.
   • 1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:

     I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horse-flesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.

   • 2012, Paul McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists:

     This book would not be a book for hippophiles without the oft-quoted adage 'no foot – no horse'.

• equiphile

• hippophobe

• hippomania
• hippophilia
• hippophilic

• “hippophile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.