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philologer en · NOUN

Etymology

Either from Latin philologus or Ancient Greek φιλόλογος (philólogos) + -er.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A philologist.
   • In his articles Schultz specifically criticized "philologer-poets" and their loose, poetic, literary approach to studying and translating Oriental texts. 2003, Douglas T. McGetchin, “Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Societe Asiatique, 1822-1860”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 4, page 570:
   • Philologers of future ages, How will they pore upon thy pages! c. 1721, “George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, Jonathan Swift:
   • The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry. 1887, Georg Ebers, The Bride of the Nile, Preface:

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