Look up: etymology

1. etymology
   [n] - a history of a word 2. [n] - the study of the sources and development of words
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2. Etymology
   the study of the origin and history of words.
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3. Etymology
   Et`y·mol'o·gy (-jȳ) noun ; plural Etymologies (-jĭz). [ Latin etymologia , Greek 'etymologi`a ; 'e`tymon etymon + lo`gos discourse, description: confer French étymologie . S...
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4. etymology
   Origin: L.etymologia, Gr.; etymon + discourse, description: cf. F. Etymologie. See Etymon, and -logy. ... 1. <study> That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of from and meaning. ... 2. That pert of ...
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5. etymology
   noun the study of the sources and development of words
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6. etymology
   noun a history of a word
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7. Etymology
   • (n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning. • (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
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8. etymology
   the history of a word or word element, including its origins and derivation. Although the etymologizing of proper names appears in the Old Testament ... [3 related articles]
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9. etymology
   etymology, etymologies 1. The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing...
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10. etymology
    
    • a history of a word
    • the study of the sources and development of words
    
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11. etymology
    etymology (etimol'ujē) , branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described in Grimm's law) and led to the historical investigation of la...
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12. Etymology
    Etymology is a term applied to that part of grammar which treats of the various inflections and modifications of words and shows how they are formed from simple roots.
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13. Etymology
    Etymology is the science of the origin and relationship of words.
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14. etymology
    Study of the origin and history of words within and across languages. It has two major aspects: the study of the phonetic and written forms of words, and of the semantics or meanings of those words. Standard dictionaries of a language such as English typically contain etymological information within square brackets at the end of each entry, ena...
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15. Etymology
    `Etymology` is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earl...
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