philology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Philologie, from Latin philologia, from Ancient Greek φιλολογίᾱ (philologíā, “love of argument or reasoning, love of learning and literature”).
Inflected forms:
form: philologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
especially
uncountable
examples: Philology and philosophy are treated as reciprocal. They exist on equal footing, and neither functions satisfactorily without the other. Their methods ... are opposite; philology attains to knowledge through induction, whereas philosophy starts from a concept. To formulate his concepts soundly, the philosopher needs an adequate fund of knowledge or data; too many philosophers ... lack a basis in knowledge or tradition
[…]his early philosophical studies converged with his original love of philology as he pursued the “prehistory” of Kantian critique in Descartes, Galileo, and Copernicus, back to Plato.
gloss: Historical or comparative linguistics.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
archaic
countable
especially
rare
uncountable
gloss: Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Indeed Philology properly is Terſe and Polite Learning, melior literatura (married long ſince by Martianus Capella to Mercury) being that Florid skill, containing onely the Roſes of learning, without the prickles thereof in which narrow ſenſe thorny Philoſophy is diſcharged as no part of Philology. But we take it in the larger notion as incluſive of all human liberal Studies and prepoſed to Divinity as the Porch to the Palace.
Synonyms: philology
Related words: logophilia
classical studies
higher criticism
linguistics
literary criticism
lower criticism
philosophy
textual criticism
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Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 560. Language
Derived words: classical philology
cognitive philology
comparative philology
philologaster
philologer
philologian
philological
philologically
philologise
philologist
philologize
piphilology
textual philology
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: filologie
lang: Albanian
word: filologji
lang: Arabic
word: فِقْهُ اللُّغَة
roman: fiqhu l-luḡa
lang: Arabic
word: عِلْمُ فِقْهِ اللُّغَة
roman: ʕilmu fiqhi l-luḡa
lang: Armenian
word: բանասիրություն
roman: banasirutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: filoloxía
lang: Belarusian
word: філало́гія
roman: filalóhija
lang: Belarusian
word: філёлё́гія
roman: filjoljóhija
lang: Bulgarian
word: филоло́гия
roman: filológija
lang: Burmese
word: ဝေါဟာရဗေဒ
roman: wau:hara.beda.
lang: Catalan
word: filologia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 文字學 /文字学
roman: wénzìxué
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 語文學 /语文学
roman: yǔwénxué
lang: Czech
word: filologie
lang: Danish
word: filologi
lang: Dutch
word: filologie
lang: Esperanto
word: filologio
lang: Estonian
word: filoloogia
lang: Faroese
word: málfrøði
lang: Finnish
word: filologia
lang: French
word: philologie
lang: Old French
word: philologie
lang: Galician
word: filoloxía
lang: Georgian
word: ფილოლოგია
roman: pilologia
lang: German
word: Philologie
lang: Greek
word: φιλολογία
roman: filología
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φιλολογία
roman: philología
lang: Hebrew
word: פִילוֹלוֹגְיָה
roman: filológiya
lang: Hindi
word: भाषाशास्त्र
roman: bhāṣāśāstra
lang: Hungarian
word: filológia
lang: Icelandic
word: textafræði
lang: Ido
word: filologio
lang: Indonesian
word: filologi
lang: Interlingua
word: philologia
lang: Irish
word: focleolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: filologia
lang: Japanese
word: 文献学
roman: bunkengaku
lang: Khmer
word: និរុត្តិសាស្ត្រ
roman: niruttesaah
lang: Korean
word: 문헌학
roman: munheonhak
lang: Latvian
word: filoloģija
lang: Lithuanian
word: filologija
lang: Macedonian
word: филоло́гија
roman: filológija
lang: Malay
word: کاجي بهاس
lang: Malay
word: فيلولوݢي
lang: Malay
word: kaji bahasa
lang: Malay
word: filologi
lang: Maltese
word: filoloġija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: filologi
lang: Occitan
word: filologia
lang: Persian
word: فیلولوژی
roman: filoloži
lang: Polish
word: filologia
lang: Portuguese
word: filologia
lang: Romanian
word: filologie
lang: Russian
word: филоло́гия
roman: filológija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: filològija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezikoznànstvo
lang: Sicilian
word: filuluggìa
lang: Slovak
word: filológia
lang: Slovene
word: filologija
lang: Spanish
word: filología
lang: Swahili
word: filolojia
lang: Swedish
word: filologi
lang: Tagalog
word: palawikaan
lang: Thai
word: นิรุกติศาสตร์
roman: ní-rúk-dtì-sàat
lang: Turkish
word: filoloji
lang: Turkish
word: dil bilimi
lang: Turkmen
word: filologiýa
lang: Udmurt
word: кылосбур
roman: kylosbur
lang: Ukrainian
word: філоло́гія
roman: filolóhija
lang: Vietnamese
word: bác ngữ học
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngữ văn
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngôn ngữ học
lang: Welsh
word: ffiloleg
lang: Welsh
word: ieitheg
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿילאָלאָגיע
roman: filologye