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单词 etymologize
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etymologizev.

Brit. /ˌɛtᵻˈmɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɛdəˈmɑləˌdʒaɪz/
Forms: 1500s ethimologise, 1500s ethymologyse, 1500s etimoligise, 1600s aetimologise, 1600s etimologise, 1600s etymologyze, 1600s–1700s etimologize, 1600s– etymologize, 1800s– etymologise.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin etymologizare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin etymologizare (also ethimologizare) to suggest the derivation of (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin etymologia etymology n. + post-classical Latin -izare -ize suffix. Compare Middle French, French étymologiser (1551). Compare etymologization n. and later etymologe v.
1.
a. transitive. To identify or investigate the etymology or derivation of; to suggest an etymology for.
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the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [verb (transitive)] > trace etymology of
etymologize1532
derive1559
etymologe1586
1532 Remedy of Love in Wks. G. Chaucer f. ccclxviii The first parte of this name we haue founde, Let us ethymologyse the secounde.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) iv. iii, in Wks. I. 225 Pha. Breeches, quasi beare-riches; when a gallant beares all his riches in his breeches. Amo. Most fortunately etymologyz'd.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 55 Languedoc,..Scaliger would etymologize from Langue d'ouy.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) App. 325 Having started the conceit of an undergraduate's being like an apprentice, (which you etymologize in a very accurate manner).
1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. iv. 369 Socrates, having first..etymologized a multitude of Words with a view to that Flow and unceasing Mutation.
1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 117 Even the word merino is not altogether etymologized.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 191 With this in view, the first portion of Brahma is etymologized as follows.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 147 The habit of etymologizing words off-hand from expressive sounds.
1922 Washington Univ. Stud. Oct. 90 The enormous variety of names occurring in these tales makes it sufficiently obvious that etymologizing them will not throw light on the story's meaning.
1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 148 The Englishman..etymologised marmalade according to the folkloric elision of ‘Marie malade’.
2012 S. N. Dworkin Hist. Spanish Lexicon ii. 24 Isidore uses cama in an attempt to etymologize the noun camisia.
b. intransitive. To study or practice etymology; to investigate the origin of words; to suggest an etymology.
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the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [verb (intransitive)] > study or trace etymology
etymologize1709
1709 R. Howlett Royal Pastime Cock-fighting Ded. sig. A6 Some may think me too Copious in Etimologizing upon the right end.
1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. iv. 82 'Tis perhaps more profitable..to etymologize after this manner.
1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 83 It would not be proper to etymologise too much or too minutely on some words.
1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words (1869) vii. 266 How perilous it is to etymologize at random.
1877 J. Peile Philol. i. 16 We etymologise as if each man were a standard to himself.
1903 New Internat. Encycl. VII. 259/1 The attempt to etymologize is found in the earliest literary records.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 113 If the person responsible for this explanation had realized that there were..at least two other place-names containing the same first element,..he might have been a little less ready to etymologize.
2008 C. M. Chin Gram. & Christianity in Late Rom. World 218 Nor would I suggest that Jerome never etymologizes with theological intent.
2. transitive. To denote etymologically. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > mean or signify [verb (transitive)] > mean etymologically
etymologize1634
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 12 The Analogie of the word induces me to imagine, some aduentrous Cambrian first arrived here, memorizing it by this name Pengwin in the Brittish Tongue, Etymologizing so much.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. 45 The field is argent, a Mullet sable, by the name of Aston, as if it did Etymologize a stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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