philologue

English

Etymology

Compare French philologue.

Noun

philologue (plural philologues)

1. 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[.]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.lɔ.lɔɡ/

Noun

philologue m or f (plural philologues)

1. philologist

Related terms

• philologie
• philologique

Further reading

• “philologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.