philologue
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French philologue, from Latin philologus (“lover of learning”), from Ancient Greek φιλολόγος (philológos, “lover of words and learning”). Equivalent to philo- + -logue.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: philologus, φιλολόγος