noun
Meaning 1
A philologist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Antonyms: none provided
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philologue
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noun
Meaning 2
a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: philologist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: humanist
Narrower terms: Furnivall, Frederick James Furnivall, Humboldt, Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Muller, Max Muller, Friedrich Max Muller, Murray, James Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Rask, Rasmus Christian Rask, Skeat, Walter William Skeat, Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Verner, Karl Adolph Verner
History
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.