different between etymologize vs etymology

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) etymologise

Etymology

etymology +? -ize

Verb

etymologize (third-person singular simple present etymologizes, present participle etymologizing, simple past and past participle etymologized)

1. (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To find or provide the etymology for a word.

Derived terms

• folk-etymologize
• etymologization

Related terms

• etymology
• etymon
• etymologist

Translations

For etymology on Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Etymology.

English

Etymology

From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (etumología), from ?????? (étumon, “true sense”) and -????? (-logía, “study of”), from ????? (lógos, “word; explanation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?t"?-m?l'?-j?, IPA^(key): /??t.??m?l.?.d?i/
• (General American) enPR: ?t"?-m?l'?-j?, IPA^(key): /??t.??m?l.?.d?i/
• Hyphenation: e?ty?mo?lo?gy
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

etymology (plural etymologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
2. (countable) The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation.

3. (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with entomology (“the study of insects”) or etiology (“the study of causes or origins”).

Hyponyms

• onomastics

Derived terms

• etymological
• folk etymology
• popular etymology
• pseudoetymology
• surface etymology

Related terms

• etymon
• etymologist
• etymologize

Translations

References

• “etymology”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “etymology” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "etymology" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.