Philologue
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A philologist. archaic
"One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]"
- 2 a humanist specializing in classical scholarship wordnet
Example
More examples"One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French philologue, from Latin philologus (“lover of learning”), from Ancient Greek φιλολόγος (philológos, “lover of words and learning”). Equivalent to philo- + -logue.
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