different between etymon vs etymology

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]

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.