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etymologize, v.|ɛtɪˈmɒlədʒaɪz|
Also 6 ethimologise, 7 æ-, etimologise, -ize, 9 etymologise.
[ad. late L. etymologizāre (spelt ethimologisare), f. etymologia etymology: see -ize and cf. Fr. étymologiser.]
1. trans. To give the etymology or derivation of; to trace the etymology of; to invent or suggest an etymology for.
c1530Remedie of Love 301 (T.), The first parte of this name we have yfounde, Let us ethimologise the secounde. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, Pha. Breeches, quasi Beare-riches; when a gallant beares all his Ritches in his Breeches. Amo. Most fortunately etymologized. c1645Howell Lett. ii. lxxxvii. (1753) 464 Langûedoc..Scaliger would etymologize from ‘langue d'ouy’. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. App. 325 Having started the conceit of an undergraduate's being like an apprentice, (which you etymologize in a very accurate manner). 1816Keatinge Trav. I. 117 Even the word merino is not altogether etymologized. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 191 With this in view, the first portion of Brahma is etymologized as follows. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 147 The habit of etymologizing words off-hand from expressive sounds.
†b. To denote etymologically. Obs. rare.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 12 And indeed the Analogie of the word induces me to imagine, some adventrous Cambrian first arrived here, memorizing it by this name Pengwin in the British Tongue, Etymologizing so much. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. 45 The field is argent, a Mullet sable, by the name of Aston, as if it did Etymologize a stone.
2. intr. To study etymology; to search into the origin of words; to invent or suggest etymologies for words.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 145, I rejoyce not much in etimologizing. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 83 It would not be proper to etymologise too much or too minutely on some words. 1851Trench Study of Words vii. (1869) 266 How perilous it is to etymologize at random. 1877Peile Primer Philol. i. 16 We etymologise as if each man were a standard to himself.
Hence etyˈmologizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1771Antiq. Sarisb. 5 A rational employment..is etymologizing. 1880S. R. Driver Hebrew Tenses App. iii. 251 Reckless etymologizing is to be avoided. 1882Athenæum 23 Dec. 844/1 Man is, as Mr. Palmer says, an etymologizing animal, and abhors an unmeaning word. |