etymon

See also: étymon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/

Noun

Examples
The Latin candidus (“white”) is the etymon of the English candid.

etymon (plural etymons or etyma)

1. (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.
   • 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).

   Antonyms: derivative, reflex

   Coordinate term: cognate

Related terms

• etymology
• etymologist
• etymologize

Translations

ancestral form or source word

• Armenian: բնիմաստ (hy) (bnimast), էտիմոն (hy) (ētimon)
• Catalan: ètim (ca) m
• Dutch: etymon n
• Finnish: lähdesana
• French: étymon (fr) m
• German: Etymon (de) n
• Hungarian: etimon
• Italian: etimo (it) m

• Mandarin: 字根 (zh)
• Polish: etymon (pl)
• Portuguese: étimo (pt) m
• Russian: этимо́н (ru) (etimón)
• Spanish: étimo (es) m
• Welsh: gwreiddair m

See also

• cognate
• root

References

• etymon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• etymon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• toymen

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mon/, [ˈɛ.t̪ʏ.mɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ti.mon/, [ˈɛː.t̪i.mɔn]

Noun

etymon n (genitive etymī); second declension

1. etymon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	etymon	etyma
Genitive	etymī	etymōrum
Dative	etymō	etymīs
Accusative	etymon	etyma
Ablative	etymō	etymīs
Vocative	etymon	etyma

References

• etymon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• etymon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]