English Explanatory Dictionary

doxographer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.

Word forms

doxographer doxographers

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin doxographus, itself coined by German classicist Hermann Diels in 1879 from Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion, belief”) + -γράφος (-gráphos, “writer”), originally in reference specifically to the tradition stemming from Theophrastus, + -er. By surface analysis, doxography + -er.

Related words

doxography doxographic doxographical
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