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/
• (US) 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, lexicography) The source word, or words, of a given word or expression.
   • 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).

Related terms

• etymology
• etymologist
• etymologize

Translations

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
• Italian: etimo (it) m

• Mandarin: 字根 (zh)
• Portuguese: étimo (pt) m
• Russian: этимо́н (ru) (etimón)
• Spanish: étimo (es) m

See also

• cognate
• root

References

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

Anagrams

• toymen

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mon/, [ˈɛ.t̪ʏ.mɔn̪]
• (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]