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Etymology

Learned respelling of Middle English ethimologie < Old French < Medieval Latin ethimologia < Latin etymologia < Greek ετυμολογία , made from Greek έτυμον (true sense), neuter of έτυμος (real, true, actual) + Greek λόγος (word, speech, discourse) < Proto-Indo-European base *leg- ('to collect', with derivations that mean 'to pick out words').

Pronunciation

• AHD: ĕt"ə-mŏl'ə-jē
• IPA: /ˌetɪˈmɒlədʒɪ/
• SAMPA: /%etI"mQl@dZI/

Noun

etymology ( plural: etymologies )

1. The science dealing with the origin and historical development of words.
2. The origin and historical development of a word.

   The etymology of this word may be found above, under "Etymology".

   Quotations

   • a. 1571 The etymology which the Dorians give, seems indeed more probable, than that of the Athenians; for how can Comodein, be made of the word Comazein. — Lodovico Castelvetro, Aristotle’s Art of Poetry , page 28.
   • 1583 Amonge all other Artes, forgett not the Mathematikes. for the Etymologie of their name, exhortes you to learne them. — Brian Melbancke, Philotimus (1583), page 98.
   • 1693 But in former times, the Name of Satire was given to Poems, which were compos’d of several sorts of Verses; such as were made by Ennius, and Pacuvius; more fully expressing the Etymology of the word Satire, from Satura, which we have observ’d — John Dryde, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis , page 26.

Derived terms

• etymological
• etymologist
• etymon
• folk etymology

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