单词 | etymologer |
释义 | etymologern. Now rare. An expert in or student of etymology; = etymologist n.In later use sometimes spec.: a person who practises etymology in an unscientific or primitive way.Etymologist is now the usual term. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > one who studies etymologist1604 etymologer1610 derivationist1891 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xxxiv. 193 Whether deriued from the Latine verbe seminare, or from the word,..shall bee the taske of curious Etymologers. 1660 M. Griffith Fear of God & King in Samaritan Revived 82 Lex à ligando, saith the Etymologer: It is call'd a law from binding. 1720 Magna Britannia I. Introd. 10/2 Dr. Skinner, a famous Etymologer, seems not satisfied with this. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 160 A plain, blunt etymologer may take the liberty of putting the extinguisher or monk's hood on his shallow, misty notions. 1880 J. A. H. Murray 9th Ann. Addr. Philol. Soc. 36 The fancies of..monkish etymologers. 1901 Notes & Queries 25 May 411/1 ‘Boulogne Mouth’—a nonsensical phrase inconceivable save to the etymologer. 1994 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 96 191 Ancient etymologers connected puer and purus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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