philologue
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French philologue.
Noun
[edit]philologue (plural philologues)
- (archaic) 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[.]
References
[edit]- “philologue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]philologue m or f by sense (plural philologues)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “philologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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