The word philology means ”love of learning and literature; personification of linguistic and literary knowledge.” It comes from the Greek word: philologia “love of discussion, learning, and literature; studiousness,” in later use “learning” in a wider sense, from philo- “loving” (see philo-) + logos “word, speech” (see Logos).

Compare the sense evolution of Greek philologos, “fond of words, talkative,” in Plato “fond of dialectic or argument,” in Aristotle and Plutarch “fond of learning and literature,” in Plotinus and Proclus “studious of words.”

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