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Philologue

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Noun
  1. 1
    A philologist. archaic

    "One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]"

  2. 2
    a humanist specializing in classical scholarship wordnet

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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