Kestrel /
ˈkestrəl/
Philology /fɪˈlɒləʤɪ/
1. Love of learning and literature; the branch of
knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and
critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.
By the late 19th cent. this general sense had become rare, but it
was revived, principally in the United States, in the early 20th cent. For a
fuller discussion of this, see A. Morpurgo Davies Hist. Linguistics
(1998) 4 I. 22.
1522 J. SKELTON Why come ye nat to Court in Compl.
Eng. Poems (1983) 292 Nor of philosophy, Nor of philology, Nor of good
pollycy, Nor of astronomy. 1612 J. SELDEN
in M. Drayton Poly-olbion I.
Pref. sig. A4, This later age..hath, in our greatest Latine Critiques..so
receiued that Saturnian Language, that, to Students in Philology, it is now
grown familiar. a1661 T. FULLER
Worthies (1662) I. 26 Philology properly
is Terse and Polite Learning, melior literatura... But we take it in the
larger notion, as inclusive of all human liberal Studies. 1669 T. GALE
Court of Gentiles: Pt. I I. I. x. 50 Philologie, according to its original, and
primitive import..implies an universal love, or respect to human Literature. 1702
C. MATHER Magnalia Christi II. v. 18/1 Such Philology as that of Suidas and
Hesychius. 1776 G. CAMPBELL
Philos. of Rhetoric I. I. v.
150 All the branches of philology, such as history, civil, ecclesiastic, and
literary; grammar, languages, jurisprudence, and criticism. 1818 H. HALLAM
View Europe Middle Ages IX. ii,
Philology, or the principles of good taste, degenerated through the prevalence
of school-logic. 1892 Athenćum 25 June 816/1 The fact that
philology is not a mere matter of grammar, but is in the largest sense a
master-science, whose duty is to present to us the whole of ancient life, and
to give archćology its just place by the side of literature. 1922 O. JESPERSEN Lang. iii. 64 In this book I
shall use the word ‘philology’ in its continental sense, which is often
rendered in English by the vague word ‘scholarship’, meaning thereby the study
of the specific culture of one nation. 1947 E. H. STURTEVANT Introd. Ling. Sci. i. 7
Philology is a word with a wide range of meaning. I use it here to designate
the study of written documents. 1980 Yale Rev. Winter 312
Philology meant, and still ought to mean, the general study of literature. 2004
Hispanic Rev. 72 442 The bewildering intertextuality that has
become the very essence of modern philology
crow1 / krəʊ / sustantivo cuervo
[OE. cráwe f., corresp. to OS. krâia,
MLG. krâge, krâe, krâ, LG. kraie, kreie,
MDu. kraeye, Du. kraai, OHG. chrâwa, chrâja, chrâ,
crâwa, crâ, MHG. krće, krâwe, krâ, Ger. krähe;
a WG. deriv. of the vb. crâwan, crâian to CROW,
q.v.]
1. 1.
a. A bird of the genus Corvus; in
England commonly applied to the Carrion Crow (Corvus Corone), ‘a large
black bird that feeds upon the carcasses of beasts’ (Johnson); in the north of
England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Rook, C. frugilegus; in U.S. to a
closely allied gregarious species, C. americanus.
A
basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which
can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. Contrasted with vowel . • a letter representing a
consonant.
(From The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)
in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
A speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, and which is a unit of the sound
system
of a language that forms the nucleus of a syllable. ...
(From The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
A sound formed by
the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins
as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin ,
loud , and side ). Often contrasted with monophthong , triphthong . • a digraph representing the sound ...
(From The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)