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philologist

noun

Etymology

From philology + -ist.

  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 philologist — “philology + ist”

Definitions

  1. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession

    A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

  2. A person devoted to general learning and literature.

    • Like Johnson, in Herculean might, Bid some philologist arise,— Some Milton, with seraphic flight, Or Newton, pupil of the skies.

  3. A person devoted to classical scholarship.

The neighborhood

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