As we have been speaking about the Spanish Classical Philologists, we will refer to the Greek origin word “philologist” (and also philology)! This word originates from the words philos (friend) and logos (speech, reason and also metaphorically literature), (thus the word describes somebody who loves the literature)
We present you the word “philology” in 14 languages.
Greek φιλολογία
English philology
French philologie
Ukrainian Філологія
Polish filologia
Rumanian filologie
German philologie
Russian филология
Bulgarian филология
Slovenian filolojia
Spanish filologia
Italian filologia
Portuguese filologia
Hungarian filológia
Think of how many more words exist in European languages that contain the words “philos” or “logos”!
