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”).
PronunciationEdit
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.
- 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 termsEdit
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
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ty.mon/, [ˈɛ.t̪ʏ.mɔn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ti.mon/, [ˈɛː.t̪i.mɔn]
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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- etymon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]