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单词 etymologist
释义 etymologist|ɛtɪˈmɒlədʒɪst|
[f. etymology + -ist.]
One who treats of, or is versed in, the science of etymology; one who searches into the history and origin of words.
1635N. Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. xiii. 216 The Greeke Etymologists ridiculously draw it from many other originalls.1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 240 This I take but for the imagination of some fond Etymologist.1747Johnson Plan Dict. Wks. IX. 177 In exhibiting the descent of our language, our etymologists seem to have been too lavish of their learning.1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xx. (1840) II. 268 Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve..are supposed by the severer etymologists, to have corrupted the purity of the English language.1841–4Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 162 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.1879Froude Cæsar iv. 38 Etymologists could arrive at no conclusion as to the origin of the name.
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