No. 4,266 in Catalan

filologia

The study of language, literature, and historical texts.

In a sentence

Va estudiar filologia espanyola durant quatre anys a la universitat.
He studied Spanish philology for four years at the university.
The term 'filologia' refers to the academic study of languages and their structure, particularly historical linguistic studies.
La filologia comparativa analitza les similituds entre llengües.
Comparative philology analyzes the similarities among languages.
Here, 'filologia' is used to denote the field concentrating on comparing languages to find shared elements.
Sempre ha tingut un gran interès per la filologia com a disciplina.
He has always had a great interest in philology as a discipline.
In this sentence, 'filologia' represents the overall discipline or field of linguistic and literary studies.

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