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philologue

philologue noun: a philologist.

Noun

philologue (plural philologues)

  1. (archaic) A philologist.
    • One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

Forms of philologue

pluralphilologues

Origin of philologue

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.

Questions about philologue

What does philologue mean?
Philologue means a philologist.
What part of speech is philologue?
Philologue is a noun.
What is the plural of philologue?
The plural of philologue is philologues.

Words near philologue in the dictionary

  1. philologists
  2. philologize
  3. philologized
  4. philologizes
  5. philologizing
  6. philologue
  7. philologues
  8. philology
  9. philomath
  10. philomathematical
  11. philomathic

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