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Linguistics

//lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The systematic and scholarly study of language. uncountable

    "a branch of linguistics"

  2. 2
    the humanistic study of language and literature wordnet
  3. 3
    the scientific study of language wordnet

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin lingua English -ist English linguist English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.

See also for "linguistics"

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