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doxographer

doxographer noun: a classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.

Noun

doxographer (plural doxographers)

  1. A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.

Forms of doxographer

pluraldoxographers

Origin of doxographer

Borrowed from New Latin doxographus, itself coined by German classicist Hermann Diels in 1879 from Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion, belief”) + -γράφος (-gráphos, “writer”), originally in reference specifically to the tradition stemming from Theophrastus, + -er. By surface analysis, doxography + -er.

Questions about doxographer

What does doxographer mean?
Doxographer means a classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.
What part of speech is doxographer?
Doxographer is a noun.
What is the plural of doxographer?
The plural of doxographer is doxographers.

Words near doxographer in the dictionary

  1. doxifluridine
  2. doxin
  3. doxing
  4. doxofylline
  5. doxogenic
  6. doxographer
  7. doxographers
  8. doxographic
  9. doxographical
  10. doxographies
  11. doxography

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