etymon
See also: étymon
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).
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NounEdit
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The Latin candidus (“white”) is the etymon of the English candid. |
etymon (plural etymons or etyma)
- (linguistics) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
- 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
- Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 5:
- The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
- 2016, Garner, Bryan A., Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition:
- Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latin etymon (parricida) was used in these senses.
- Antonyms: derivative, reflex
- Coordinate term: cognate
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TranslationsEdit
ancestral form or source word
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “etymon” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “etymon” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
AnagramsEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon) or Latin etymon.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
etymon n (plural etyma)
- etymon [from early 18th c.]
- 1710, Lambert ten Kate, Gemeenschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche, publ. by Jan Rieuwertszoon, page 20.
- Deze kennisse van 't Gottische baent ons eenen weg om het Etymon van vele onzer woorden te ontdekken, dat buyten dit behulp onnavorschelyk zoude zyn.
- This knowledge of Gothic makes a way for us to discover the etymon of many of our words, that would be inscrutable without this aid.
- 1710, Lambert ten Kate, Gemeenschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche, publ. by Jan Rieuwertszoon, page 20.
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
etymon n (genitive etymī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | etymon | etyma |
Genitive | etymī | etymōrum |
Dative | etymō | etymīs |
Accusative | etymon | etyma |
Ablative | etymō | etymīs |
Vocative | etymon | etyma |
ReferencesEdit
- “etymon”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “etymon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]