philology
1 synonym for philology, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The academic study of old written texts and the languages they are written in, especially ancient ones.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Philologie, which came from Latin philologia, from Ancient Greek φιλολογίᾱ (philologíā, “love of argument or reasoning, love of learning and literature”).
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