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Webster 1913 Edition

Philologist

Phi-lol′o-gist

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Noun.

One versed in philology.

Webster 1828 Edition

Philologist

PHILOL'OGIST

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Noun.

One versed in the history and construction of language. Philologist is generally used.

Definition 2025

philologist

philologist

English

Noun

philologist ‎(plural philologists)

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

Synonyms

philologer

Translations

person who engages in philology

Armenian: բանասեր (hy) ‎(banaser)
Asturian: filólogu m
Catalan: filòleg m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 語言學家 (zh), 语言学家 (zh) ‎(yǔyánxuéjiā), 語言學者, 语言学者 ‎(yǔyánxuézhě)
Czech: filolog m
Dutch: filoloog (nl) m
French: philologue (fr) m, f
Galician: filólogo m
German: Philologe (de) m, Philologin (de) f
Greek: φιλόλογος (el) c ‎(filólogos)
Irish: focleolaí m

Italian: filologo (it) m
Japanese: 言語学者 (ja) ‎(げんごがくしゃ, gengogakusha)
Latvian: filologs m, filoloģe f
Occitan: filològ (oc) m
Polish: filolog (pl) m
Portuguese: filólogo (pt) m, filologista m, f
Romanian: filolog (ro) m, filologă (ro) f (rare)
Russian: фило́лог (ru) m ‎(filólog), языкове́д (ru) m ‎(jazykovéd)
Serbo-Croatian: filòlog (sh) m, jezikoználac (sh) m
Spanish: filólogo m
Tagalog: palawika
Yiddish: פֿילאָלאָג m ‎(filolog), פֿילאָלאָגין f ‎(filologin)