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etymologise

etymologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of etymologize.

Meaning of etymologize

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To find or provide the etymology for a word.
    • It has long been noted that the Sardinian toponymy and lexicon contain numerous elements that cannot satisfactorily be etymologized within Latin.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 7

Forms of etymologise

third-person singular presentetymologises
present participleetymologising
past participleetymologised
pastetymologised

Origin of etymologise

From etymology + -ise.

Questions about etymologise

What is etymologise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Etymologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of etymologize.

Words near etymologise in the dictionary

  1. etymologicon
  2. etymologicons
  3. etymologies
  4. etymologisation
  5. etymologisations
  6. etymologise
  7. etymologised
  8. etymologises
  9. etymologising
  10. etymologism
  11. etymologisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: etymologise (page history and authors); etymologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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