philologue

Compare French philologue.

philologue (plural philologues)

1. (archaic) A philologist.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:

     One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]

• “philologue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /fi.lɔ.lɔɡ/

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philologue m or f by sense (plural philologues)

1. philologist

• philologie
• philologique

• “philologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.