【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.

   Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.

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.