Breaking this word into its Greek parts (“phil-,” meaning “lover of,” and “-mathēs,” meaning “learning”) gives us quite a literal translation: a lover of learning. A philomath might be an official student at a university, or they could be more of a lifelong learner, going to lectures at museums and self-teaching subjects from the internet. The word “philomath” has acquired a connotation of being a student of math, simply from the ending of the word, but the Greek root refers to learning in general, not just of mathematics.