philologiann.
/ˌfɪləˈləʊdʒɪən/, U.S. /ˌfɪləˈloʊdʒiən/ An expert in or student of linguistics; = philologist n. 2.
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the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > one who studies
philologue1594
linguist1605
philologer1653
philologist1695
terminologist1806
glossologist1817
philologian1823
linguister1870
glottologist1874
linguistic scientist1875
linguistician1895
historicist1937
wordster1965
1823 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 31 Philologians, both abroad and at home, have of late years pursued with zeal the comparison of the native dialects of this continent.
1830 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. x. 349 Philologians we have perhaps not a few, and not unlearned.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech ii. 56 The researches of the philologian into dead and existing tongues.
1917 Classical Weekly 26 Mar. 166 Both teachers and philologians need a knowledge of the principles of linguistic science.
1969 R. H. Bainton Erasmus of Christendom (1970) i. 42 He was esteemed in the circle of the Devotio Moderna, not only as a philologian, but also as an apologist for Christianity.
1999 Poetics Today 20 234 The classical philologian Christian Heyne, and other members of the group of scholars at Göttingen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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