philologist
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9.9
- noun
- /fɪˈlɑːlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
:
filólogo
- Nietzsche was a classical philologist, so that meant that he was studying Greek, Latin.
- philologist and linguist
- philologist and historian
- Romance philologists
So in Viktor Klemprev, the Nazi example, he was a Jewish philologist, a studier of language.
- So in Viktor Klemprev, the Nazi example, he was a Jewish philologist, a studier of language.
- Some Egyptologists are both archaeologists and philologists.
- And I had AI had a classical philologist in here who spent his entire life reading and translating Greek.
- And I'm a philologist, and that's third strike.
- So let me play philologist for a moment and make you aware that you just did an Odyssean thing because you have made a nostos.
Examples
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Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy.
Blog text (27) -
On the contrary, Auerbach was a genuine romance philologist; his field was Romanistik.
Academic text (1999) -
He's probably the greatest philologist, certainly of the Gothic language.
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Of course, he benefited from the work of many more learned philologists.
Academic text (1998) -
Elke is an English philologist from Germany with a passion for online marketing and internet trends.
Blog text (33) -
The fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien, who was also a philologist, might well be the linguist she had in mind.
Blog text (23) -
In every translation, there are built-in barriers—blind spots, which a philologist tries to make visible by slowing the process of translation.
Academic text (2006) -
12 Peter Frederik Suhm (1728-1798) was a philologist and an eminent historian of Northern antiquity.
Academic text (1996) -
When diachronic analysis reveals diachronic irregularities such as those mentioned above, it is the philologist's or historical linguist's task to solve the problem by further investigation.
Academic text (2001) -
Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy.
Synonyms
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A person who studies language and how it works
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A person who studies the languages, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
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A person who studies Latin and Roman writings
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A person who studies ancient Greek and Latin language, writings, and culture
A scholar who studies old languages and books like Latin or Greek
How Scholarly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Philologist comes from Greek parts philo- 'love' and -logy 'study', the same philo- in philosophy and the -logy in biology. So a philologist is someone who loves to study old written words and texts.