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  1. noun An earlier form of a word in the same language or in an ancestor language. For example, Indo-European *duwo and Old English twā are etymons of Modern English two.
  2. noun A word or morpheme from which compounds and derivatives are formed.
  3. noun A foreign word from which a particular loan word is derived. For example, Latin duo, "two,” is an etymon of English duodecimal.

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  1. Latin, from Greek etumon, true sense of a word, from neuter of etumos, true.

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  1. = Spanish etimo = Portuguese etymon, from Latin etymon, from Greek ἔτυμον, the true literal sense of a word according to its origin, its etymology, its primitive form or root; properly neuter of ἔτυμος (also in lengthened form ἐτήτυμος, both chiefly poetical), true, sure, real; with formative -μος, akin to ἐτεός, true, real, genuine, ὁσιος, hallowed, sacred, holy, pious, devout (= Sanskrit satyas, true); cf. ἐτάζειν, examine, test; the root *ετ being ult. a reduced form of *σεντ, *sant, which appears in ὤν (ὀντ-), dial. ἐών (ἐοντ-) (= Latin ens (ent-), orig. sens (sent-), as in absens, absent, præsens, present), present participle of εῑ)ναι, be, = Anglo-Saxon sōth (orig. *santh), English sooth = Icelandic sannr, true, sooth: see sooth, and ens, entity, ontology, etc., and am (under be), which represents the orig. root of all these words. Hence etymology, etc.
 

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/ˈɛtɪmɑn/
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