"etymon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/ [UK], /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/ [UK], /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-etymon.wav [Southern-England] 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”), {{m|grc|ἔτυμος|t=true, real, actual}} ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”) 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): բնիմաստ (bnimast) (Armenian), էտիմոն (ētimon) (Armenian), ètim [masculine] (Catalan), 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), 字根 (Mandarin), ètimu [masculine] (Napolitan), etymon [masculine] (Polish), étimo [masculine] (Portuguese), этимо́н (etimón) (Russian), ètimu [masculine] (Sicilian), étimo [masculine] (Spanish), stamord [neuter] (Swedish), gwreiddair [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-etymon-en-noun-en:original_or_earlier_form_in_language Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'ancestral form or source word': 64 36
  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
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: etymonic, etymonically Related terms: etymologist, etymologize, etymology, cognate, root

Inflected forms

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      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Napolitan",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ètimu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "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"
      ],
      "word": "ètimu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "étimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stamord"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "ancestral form or source word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gwreiddair"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "etymon",
    "femoral head fracture",
    "femoral neck fracture",
    "hip fracture",
    "pelvic fracture"
  ],
  "word": "etymon"
}

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