etymology

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  1. noun 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 its ancestral form where possible.
  2. noun The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.

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  1. Middle English etimologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Medieval Latin ethimologia, from Latin etymologia, from Greek etumologiā : etumon, true sense of a word; see etymon + -logiā, -logy.

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  1. Early modern English etymologie, etimologie; = German etymologie = Danish Swedish etymologi, from French etymologie, now étymologie = Spanish etimología = Portuguese etymologia = Italian etimologia, from Latin etymologia, Middle Latin also etimologia, ethimologia, from Greek ἐτυμολογία, the analysis of a word so as to find its origin, etymology (translated notatio (see notation) and veriloquium (see veriloquent) by Cicero, and originatio (see origination) by Quintilian), from ἐτυμολόγος, studying etymology, telling the true origin of a word (as a noun, an etymologist), from ἔτυμον, the true literal sense of a word according to its origin, its etymology, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak, tell: see etymon and -ology.
 

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/ɛtɪˈmɑlədʒi/
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