单词 | etymon |
释义 | et·y·mon ![]() n. pl. et·y·mons or et·y·ma (-mə) 1. An earlier form of a word in the same language or in an ancestor language. For example, Indo-European *duwo and Old English twā are etymons of Modern English two. 2. A word or morpheme from which compounds and derivatives are formed. 3. A foreign word from which a particular loan word is derived. For example, Latin duo, "two," is an etymon of English duodecimal. [Latin, from Greek etumon, true sense of a word, from neuter of etumos, true.] |
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