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philological

adj

Etymology

From philology + -ical.

  1. derived from φιλολογίᾱ — “love of argument or reasoning, love of learning and literature”
  2. derived from philologia
  3. inherited from Philologie
  4. suffixed as philological — “philology + ical”

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.

  2. Pertaining to historical linguistics.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonphilological, philologically, unphilological

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for philological. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA