Meanings
plural philologues
- archaicA 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekφιλολόγος“lover of words and learning”
- Latinphilologus“lover of learning”
- Middle Frenchphilologue
- Englishphilologue
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.
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philologue. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/philologue
“philologue.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/philologue. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “philologue,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/philologue.
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