【etymology】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

For etymology on Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Etymology.

英语(English)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; explanation”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕt"ə-mŏl'ə-jē, IPA^(key): /ˌɛt.ɪˈmɒl.ə.dʒi/
• (General American) enPR: ĕt"ə-mŏl'ə-jē, IPA^(key): /ˌɛt.ɪˈmɑl.ə.dʒi/

• Audio (US)

• Hyphenation: e‧ty‧mo‧lo‧gy
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

名词(Noun)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

etymology

Wikipedia

etymology (plural etymologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
2. (countable) The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 13:

     The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so.

3. (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

用法注意(Usage notes)

• Not to be confused with entomology (“the study of insects”) or etiology (“the study of causes or origins”).

下义词(Hyponyms)

• onomastics

衍生词(Derived terms)

• etymological
• folk etymology
• popular etymology
• pseudoetymology
• surface etymology

关联词(Related terms)

• etymon
• etymologist
• etymologize

翻译(Translations)

来源参考(References)

• “etymology” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “etymology” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "etymology" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.