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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishethymologie, fromOld Frenchethimologie, fromLatinetymologia, fromAncient Greekἐτυμολογία(etumología), fromἔτυμον(étumon,“true sense”) and-λογία(-logía,“study or logic of”), fromλόγος(lógos,“word; explanation”).

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etymology (countable anduncountable,pluraletymologies)

  2. (uncountable, linguistics) Thescientificstudy of theorigin andevolution of a word'ssemanticmeaning across time, including itsconstituentmorphemes andphonemes.
    Holonyms:historical linguistics <linguistics
  4. (countable) The entirecatalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, orsign has carried throughout itshistory.
    Although written the same, the wordslead (the metal) andlead (the verb) have totally differentetymologies.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎[1], page13:
      Theetymology of the termJaplish is disputed and contentiously so.
  6. (countable) Anaccount of the origin andhistoricaldevelopment of a word as presented in adictionary or the like.
    Synonym:derivation
    • 2011 [2009], Philip Durkin, “About this book”, inThe Oxford Guide to Etymology, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page ix:
      Etymologies appeal to people with a very wide variety of interests and intellectual backgrounds. A very few people, such as myself, spend most of their time researchingetymologies. A slightly larger number do so very occasionally. Many, many more people look atetymologies, but have never researched any themselves. Some people will never even have thought ofetymologies as things which need to be researched. Particularly whenetymologies are encountered in the compressed form found in many dictionaries, they can seem to be a given, rather than the (often very tentative) results of extensive research. This book is intended for anyone who has taken the important first step of realizing thatetymologies are the result of research, and would like to discover something about the nature of that research, and the principles and methodologies which underlie it.
    • 2012 August 13, Leslie Larson, “Up a family tree”, inCNN‎[2]:
      I began to study coats of arms, visit the Web sites of portrait galleries and look up theetymology of Gaelic names.
    • 2023 July 2, Talia Felix, “Homing in on Harlequin”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary‎[3]:
      Where did this name Harlequin (or Arlechin) come from? Mostetymologies for the name give theHellequin theory.
  7. (countable) Thedirect origin of aname, as in who someone was named after.
    • 1996,The Rock:
      I'm sure you know theetymology of your name, Goodspeed.

Usage notes

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  • Not to be confused withentomology(“the study of insects”) oretiology(“the study of causes or origins”).
  • Not to be confused with the origin of the object or person to which the word refers.

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Translations

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study of the historical development of languages, particularly of individual words
account of the origin and historical development of a word
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