philologer

Related to philologer: philologue, philologist

phi·lol·o·gy

(fĭ-lŏl′ə-jē)

1. Literary study or classical scholarship.

[Middle English philologie, from Latin philologia, love of learning, from Greek philologiā, from philologos, fond of learning or of words : philo-, philo- + logos, reason, speech; see -logy.]

phi·lol′o·ger, phi·lol′o·gist n.

phil′o·log′ic (fĭl′ə-lŏj′ĭk), phil′o·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.

phil′o·log′i·cal·ly adv.

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Unsurprisingly for a philologer like Celenza, Machiavelli is viewed in this volume chiefly through the prism of his writings, which serve as touchstones for Celenza's exploration of Machiavelli's chief concerns.

Machiavelli: A Portrait

He was noted for the correctness of his information, as a grammarian and a philologer. On grammar he wrote Kitab Jami' al-Nahw and Kitab Jami' al-Nahw al-Saghir, and he wrote Adab al-Katib on philology.