"etymon" meaning in English

See etymon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/ [UK], /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/ [UK], /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-etymon.wav Forms: etymons [plural], etyma [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|ἔτυμον|t=the true sense of a word according to its origin}} Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|etyma}} 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. Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: etym Translations (ancestral form or source word): أَثَلَة (ʔaṯala) [feminine] (Arabic), բնիմաստ (bnimast) (Armenian), էտիմոն (ētimon) (Armenian), étimu [masculine] (Asturian), ètim [masculine] (Catalan), 字根 (zìgēn) (Chinese Mandarin), etymon [neuter] (Dutch), lähdesana (Finnish), kantasana (Finnish), sanajuuri (Finnish), étymon [masculine] (French), Etymon [neuter] (German), έτυμο (étymo) [neuter] (Greek), etimon (Hungarian), etymo (Interlingua), etimo [masculine] (Italian), ètimu [masculine] (Napolitan), stamord [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), etymon [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), etymon [masculine] (Polish), étimo [masculine] (Portuguese), этимо́н (etimón) (Russian), ètimu [masculine] (Sicilian), étimo [masculine] (Spanish), stamord [neuter] (Swedish), gwreiddair [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. Meaning as derived and conveyed thereby: The literal meaning of a term according to its origin, which may differ from its usual meaning when the latter relies on idiomatic conventions that are not conveyed by the term alone (that is, they must be known in other ways, such as experience, training, education, or dictionary lookup).
    Sense id: en-etymon-en-noun-en:meaning Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Asturian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Asturian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: etymonic, etymonically Related terms: etymologist, etymologize, etymology, cognate, root

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Interlingua translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Neapolitan translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Sicilian translations",
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          "ref": "2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:",
          "text": "The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).",
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          "ref": "2016, Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "բնիմաստ"
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      "word": "էտիմոն"
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      "roman": "zìgēn",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "字根"
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      "word": "lähdesana"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "kantasana"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "sanajuuri"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "étymon"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "Etymon"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "έτυμο"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "etimon"
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    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "etymo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "etimo"
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    {
      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Napolitan",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "ètimu"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "stamord"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "étimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "etimón",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "word": "этимо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "ètimu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "étimo"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "stamord"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "gwreiddair"
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    "etymon",
    "femoral head fracture",
    "femoral neck fracture",
    "hip fracture",
    "pelvic fracture"
  ],
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}

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