philologer

English

Etymology

Either from Latin philologus or Ancient Greek φιλόλογος (philólogos) +‎ -er.

Noun

philologer (plural philologers)

1. (archaic) A philologist.
   • c. 1721, “George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, Jonathan Swift:

     Philologers of future ages,
     How will they pore upon thy pages!

   • 1887, Georg Ebers, The Bride of the Nile, Preface:

     The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry.

   • 2003, Douglas T. McGetchin, “Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Societe Asiatique, 1822-1860”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 4, page 570:

     In his articles Schultz specifically criticized "philologer-poets" and their loose, poetic, literary approach to studying and translating Oriental texts.