philology

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: fĭlŏʹləjĭ, IPA: /fɪˈlɒlədʒɪ/, X-SAMPA: /fI"lQl@dZI/

Etymology

First coined 1614, from Old French philologie, from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philologia, “love of argument or reasoning, love of learning and literature”), from φίλος (philos, “loved, beloved, dear, friend”) + λόγος (logos).

Noun

Wikipedia philology (countable and uncountable; plural philologies)

1. (linguistics) The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

Derived terms

Terms derived from philology

classical philology cognitive philology comparative philology philologer

philological philologically philologist textual philology

Related terms

• philosophy

Translations

historical linguistics

• Afrikaans: filologie (af)
• Armenian: բանասիրություն (hy) (banasirutʿyun)
• Asturian: filoloxía (ast) f
• Catalan: filologia (ca) f
• Czech: filologie (cs) f
• Esperanto: filologio (eo)
• French: philologie (fr) f
• Galician: filoloxía (gl) f
• German: Philologie (de) f
• Greek: φιλολογία (el) (filología) f
• Icelandic: textafræði (is) f
• Ido: filologio (io)
• Interlingua: philologia (ia)
• Irish: focleolaíocht (ga) f
• Italian: filologia (it) f

• Latvian: filoloģija (lv) f
• Malay:

  Rumi: kaji bahasa (ms), filologi (ms)

  Jawi: کاجي بهاس (ms), فيلولوݢي (ms)

• Occitan: filologia (oc) f
• Old French: philologie f
• Polish: filologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: filologia (pt) f
• Russian: филология (ru) (filológija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: filològija (sh) f, jezikoznànstvo (sh) n
• Slovene: filologija (sl)
• Spanish: filología (es) f
• Turkish: filoloji (tr), dil bilimi (tr)

See also

• higher criticism
• literary criticism
• lower criticism
• textual criticism

External links

• Philology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia