etymology
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- noun
- /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/
- Specialized
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etimología
- Joyce's familiarity with etymology preceded the writing of Dubliners by several years.
- etymology of the word
- folk etymology
- false etymologies
But KHEM is the etymology of our modern word for chemistry.
- But KHEM is the etymology of our modern word for chemistry.
- In fact, the etymology of the word agony means to strive.
- I enjoyed learning a lot about older English and the etymology of certain say older English or even modern English words.
- And what's fascinating is if you look at the etymology of these words, homo means same and stasis means standing.
- And if we're true to the etymology where the term came from, then we must recognise and we cannot neglect the subject of experience.
- It's basically a, a sense that I, I was researching the, the etymology of the word anxiety and it comes from a Latin word which means to constrict.
- And this is the course I teach, which is etymology of number.
- I feel like slag probably has different etymology that can't be related to it's like the slut shaming word, can it?
- And that is the that is the etymology, So the scholars say, of cock punch, the legend of cock punch.
Examples
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This is my attempt at understanding the etymology of parsimonious, which is something like something like little money being very thrifty.
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The term "enemy of the people" was not invented by Stalin; its etymology goes back several centuries.
Academic text (1996) -
I enjoyed learning a lot about older English and the etymology of certain say older English or even modern English words.
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OK, so you know the root word of education, when you look at the etymology, it is to draw out.
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What's the etymology of your name?
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In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means simply God in US.
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In fact, the etymology of the word agony means to strive.
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There is no scholarly consensus about the meaning or etymology of the Korean word Arirang.
Academic text (2013) -
Socrates is both playful and serious in offering his etymologies of the gods.
Academic text (2017) -
What's the etymology of your name?
Synonyms
The history of a word and where it comes from
Compounds
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
etymology = etymon (opaque) = etym + ology
Although the word contains the scholarly suffix -ology, the base element etym- is not transparent to an average B1 learner, so the meaning is not readily recoverable from the parts.
Etymology
Etymology comes from the Greek parts etymon meaning 'true' and -logy meaning 'study', the same ending you see in biology and psychology. So, etymology is literally the study of a word's 'true' meaning, which is why it looks at where words come from and how their meanings change.