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Etymology   /ˌɛtəmˈɑlədʒi/  /ˌɛtɪmˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Etymology

noun
(pl. etymologies)
1.
A history of a word.
2.
The study of the sources and development of words.



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"Etymology" Quotes from Famous Books



... principle" between it and "the use of dictatorial power of individuals." By what violence to reason and to language is the word democracy applied to the system described by Lenine? To use words with such scant respect to their meanings, established by etymology, history, and universal agreement in usage, is to invite and indeed compel the contempt of minds disciplined by reason's practices. As for the claim that there is no contradiction in principle ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation. It has been demanded, on one hand, that men should write as they speak; but, as it has been shown that this conformity never was attained in any language, and that it is not more easy to persuade men to agree exactly in speaking than in writing, it may be asked, with equal propriety, ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson
... Horace, and of Persius. But in former times the name of satire was given to poems which were composed of several sorts of verses, such as were made by Ennius and Pacuvius"—more fully expressing the etymology of the word satire from satura, which we have observed. Here it is manifest that Diomedes makes a specifical distinction betwixt the satires of Ennius and those of Lucilius. But this, as we say in English, ...
— Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry • John Dryden
... river has been impelled westward, in consequence of the accumulations of earth, which occur more frequently on the side of the eastern mountains, that are furrowed by torrents. The cataract bears the name of Mapara,* as we have mentioned above (* I am ignorant of the etymology of this word, which I believe means only a fall of water. Gili translates into Maypure a small cascade (raudalito) by uccamatisi mapara canacapatirri. Should we not spell this word matpara? mat being a radical of the Maypure tongue, and meaning bad (Hervas, ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt


Words linked to "Etymology" :   linguistics, etymological, story, account, etymologist, lexicostatistics, chronicle, etymologize, folk etymology, history


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