different between etymology vs lexicography

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.

English

Etymology

From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) +? -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/, /-s?-/
• Hyphenation: lex?i?co?gra?phy

Noun

lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

1. (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
3. (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

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Translations

References

Further reading

• lexicography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia