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[Max White]

The Latin prefix 'philo' means love.
'Philosophy' literally translated to the study of love. 

[Haspen]

That's actually Greek, not Latin

And 'philosophy' actually means 'love of wisdom' ('love to study' if you want to overinterpret it), not the other way

[Max White]

Really? Wait does this mean the suffix '-mancer' is also Greek?
Have I been fucking up on my mythical occupation titles by mixing my Latin prefixes with a Greek suffix? Dammit, those fantasy wizards are not going to like the news...

I really need to learn Latin...

[Haspen]

'mancer' comes from "manteia" in Greek, which means 'divination'

[Fniff]

It is also a badass word.

Say it. Mancer!

[Max White]

Reminds me of Mance Rayder, that bad ass from Game of Thrones who was totally ignored in the tv series.

[Frumple]

Mancer is like cancer just man instead of metal.

Mancer is less metal than cancer.

And cancer is not very metal at all

[Max White]

Actually if the suffix 'mancer' is somebody who mealy divines from from 'prefix', what is the Greek term used for having power or control over 'prefix'?

[RedKing]

Actually if the suffix 'mancer' is somebody who mealy divines from from 'prefix', what is the Greek term used for having power or control over 'prefix'?

-crat. From the Ancient Greek krateia. Would sound a bit weird to call a fire mage a pyrocrat. I like the ring of "necrocrat" though.

[Max White]

Pyrocrat, hydrocrat, biocrat... I think it works pretty damn well!
Sorry frost mages, cryocrat is a bit off... Chronocrat, however, is dead sexy.

EDIT: Wait, Chronomancy, to tell the future based off... What happens over time. So to just watch something. Amazing.

[Fniff]

Don't worry, they're getting Mance in the next series.

[Dutchling]

Pyrocrat, hydrocrat, biocrat... I think it works pretty damn well!
Sorry frost mages, cryocrat is a bit off... Chronocrat, however, is dead sexy.

They just sounds like incredibly classy mages.

I like.

[Il Palazzo]

Actually if the suffix 'mancer' is somebody who mealy divines from from 'prefix', what is the Greek term used for having power or control over 'prefix'?

-crat. From the Ancient Greek krateia. Would sound a bit weird to call a fire mage a pyrocrat. I like the ring of "necrocrat" though.

-crat as a back formation of -cracy is more of a "rules by" than has control over. Compare plutocrat or technocrat.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-cracy&allowed_in_frame=0

Perhaps -crator would be better, to mimic the usage in e.g. Christ Pantocrator(ruler of/over all).

[Max White]

Necrocrator... See that sounds more like a position of office.
I would expect to find 'Derralith the Necrocrator' as the boss of a dungeon, not a playable class.

Yes, Greek translates directly to game concepts.

[misko27]

Chronocrat sounds like some time-based bureaucrat. Perhaps a time-policeman.