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phi·lol·o·gy

P0247400 (fĭ-lŏl′ə-jē)n.1. Literary study or classical scholarship.2. See historical linguistics.
[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.