different between etymon vs etymological

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ?????? (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??t.?.m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t.?.m?n/

Noun

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.

   Antonyms: derivative, reflex

   Coordinate term: cognate

Derived terms

• etymonic
• etymonically

Related terms

• etymology
• etymologist
• etymologize

Translations

See also

• cognate
• root

References

• etymon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• etymon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• toymen

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????? (étumon) or Latin etymon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.ti.m?n/
• Hyphenation: ety?mon

Noun

etymon n (plural etyma)

1. etymon [from early 18th c.]
   • 1710, Lambert ten Kate, Gemeenschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche, publ. by Jan Rieuwertszoon, page 20.

Related terms

• etymologie

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (étumon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.ty.mon/, [??t??m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.ti.mon/, [???t?im?n]

Noun

etymon n (genitive etym?); second declension

1. etymon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

References

• etymon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• etymon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]

English

Etymology

etymology +? -ical

Adjective

etymological (comparative more etymological, superlative most etymological)

1. (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
2. (comparable) (of a word) Consistent with its etymological characteristics (in historical usage and/or the source language).

Derived terms

• etymological argument
• etymologically

Related terms

Translations