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doxographer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dox-o-g-ra-pher
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin doxographus, itself coined by German classicist Hermann Diels in 1879 from Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion, belief”) + -γράφος (-gráphos, “writer”), originally in reference specifically to the tradition stemming from Theophrastus, + -er. By surface analysis, doxography + -er.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

doxographers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

doxography doxographic doxographical

Questions

What does doxographer mean?
A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.
Where does doxographer come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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