n.
- Literary study or classical scholarship.
- See historical linguistics.
[Middle English philologie, from Latin philologia, love of learning, from Greek philologiā, from philologos, fond of learning or of words : philo-, philo- + logos, reason, speech; see -logy.]
philologer phi·lol'o·ger or phi·lol'o·gist n.philologic phil'o·log'ic (fĭl'ə-lŏj'ĭk) or phil'o·log'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
philologically phil'o·log'i·cal·ly adv.
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