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philologize

verb

Etymology

From philology + -ize.

  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 philologize — “philology + ize”

Definitions

  1. To do the work of a philologist, to study words and their origins.

    • Nor is it here that I design to enlarge , as those who have philologized on this occasion de Sycophantis

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for philologize. 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