philologue
English
Etymology
Compare French philologue.
Noun
philologue (plural philologues)
- A philologist.
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for philologue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.lɔ.lɔɡ/
Related terms
Further reading
- “philologue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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