linguistics

Etymology

From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 from German Linguistik.

noun

  1. The systematic and scholarly study of language.
    branch of linguistics
    to study linguistics

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