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单词 etymological
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etymologicaladj.

Brit. /ˌɛtᵻməˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌɛdəməˈlɑdʒəkəl/
Forms: 1500s–1600s etymologicall, 1500s– etymological, 1600s etimological.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin etymologicus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin etymologicus etymologic adj. + -al suffix1; compare -logical comb. form. Compare earlier etymology n. and later etymologic adj.
1. Of or relating to etymology; (of a spelling, meaning, etc.) based on or in accordance with etymology, original.
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etymological1588
etymologizing1752
etymologic1771
etymonic1808
1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 36 Any text beside the chiefe doctrinall and morall discourse, requireth either one Etymologicall, or Historicall explication.
1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis ix. 11 This name belongeth unto the Etymological interpretation of Hildebrand.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. Illustr. 20 Take largest etymologicall liberty, and you may haue it from Ellan-ban i.e. the white Isle.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. iii. §7 It wer more etymological to wryt montan, fontan, according to the original.
1747 S. Johnson Plan Dict. 22 Of the word arrive,..its original and etymological sense.
1769 in J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. (1876) ii. xiii. 355 The Etymological part of the rudiments of the Latin grammar.
1804 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 9) iii. 215 Specimen of etymological parsing.
1865 F. M. Müller Chips (1867) I. vi. 130 A meaning that..can..be defended on..etymological grounds.
1921 C. Cole Hist. People of Iowa x. 56 There seems to be no evidence, etymological or other, to support the theory that Iowa means..‘this is the place’.
1940 Mind 49 209 Stripped of these mental overtones, his definition is quite close to the etymological meaning of the word infinite.
2002 National Geographic Jan. 82/1 The term itself, Islam, is an Arabic word meaning ‘submission to God’, with etymological roots firmly planted in salam , or peace.
2. Concerned with or engaged in the study of etymology. Chiefly in predicative use.
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1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. i. iii. 19 ‘So, we are to be etymological to-night,’ exclaimed Gower.
1868 R. S. Charnock Ludus Patronymicus p. ix I once showed this List to my etymological friend.
1901 L. Housman Mod. Antaeus ix. 93 The poetry..is in the word itself; I have merely to be etymological.
1954 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 85 145 The poet goes etymological here, associating teretis with the ter-root seen in the verb tero.
2005 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 26 Oct. d1 Let's get etymological for a moment.

Compounds

etymological dictionary n. a dictionary which gives the etymons or etymologies of its lemmas; esp. a dictionary which consists primarily of etymological information.Frequently in the titles of such dictionaries.
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1606 F. Holyoke (title) Rider's dictionarie corrected and augmented. Wherein Riders index is transformed into a dictionarie etymologicall.
1617–20 (title) A catalogue and true note of the names of such persons which..haue receaued the etymologicall dictionarie of XI languages.
1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 157 Of technical as also of etymological dictionaries, many have long been extant.
1891 Notes & Queries 12 Mar. 204/1 I think it may be as well to protest against Mr. Earle's derivation of the word, else..his explanation might get into some of the etymological dictionaries of the future.
1961 T. Burrow & M. B. Emeneau (title) A Dravidian etymological dictionary.
2007 V. Loichot Orphan Narr. iii. 87 His words have to be deciphered, with the help of a thesaurus, an etymological dictionary..and a book of Greek metrics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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