Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A specialist in etymology.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One versed in etymology; one who specially studies, teaches, or writes the history of words; a historian of words.
Wiktionary
- n. A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who investigates the derivation of words.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lexicographer who specializes in etymology
Examples
“Google agrees, an etymologist is an expert in language, which is kind of ironic.”
“Interesting also, that Ehrlich was not an economist, agronomist or even demographer but rather an etymologist, an expert in insect biology.”
Forbes: A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
“I would have solved the problem by demonstrating that the use of the term “etymologist” was intentional, as follows:”
“Hmmm, if your editor cant differentiate between entomologist and etymologist then I think you need to scale his powers back a bit.”
“The verb mṛṇā́ti 'crushes, grinds' is always available to the Sanskrit etymologist but a verb root paralleling Greek marmáirein 'to shine' is absent.”
“I guess that's just another example of the wild and unpredictable world of the etymologist.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
“Breaking from TheGreenGrok formula of sharp, cutting-edge pieces on the environment, let's discuss words -- let us surreptitiously slip into the world of the etymologist for a few minutes.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
“Credit: I enjoyed the origins of words and considered myself a budding etymologist, which I believe every poet intuitively becomes once they decide to use language as material for imaginative thinking.”
First Loves : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“Very interesting insights into the thinking of a spelling bee champion in my opinion however, as a hobby etymologist and someone who did reasonable in spelling competitions at that age you can see how he dissects the word to deduce the spelling.”
“According to the botanist and the etymologist who analyzed the skeletal remains, they said that grass and insects in those remains showed that the body had been there since June.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘etymologist’.
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five syllables
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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occupations
discerner, discriminator, percipient, spectator, idealogue, synthesist, semiotician, pharmacopolist, pharmacognosist, pedant, maverick, trickster and 57 more...
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dangleberry's Words
lush, dabble, babble, bauble, aubergine, dangle, tingle, tangle, zing, tomato, splosh, tinkle and 72 more...
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Dictionary Terms
The interesting ones. :)
polyglossary, e-dictionary, calepine, kosha, etymologicon, idioticon, onomasticon, wordbook, glossary, thesaurus, synonymicon, fictionary and 17 more...
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john Someone who studies the origins of words. Not to be confused with an entomologist. Dec 24, 2006