Word of the Day:
etymon
What It Means
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.
Etymon in Context
“The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).”
Did You Know?
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: etymon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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