etymon

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/, /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/

etymon (plural etymons or etyma)

1. (linguistics) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

   Synonym: etym

   Antonyms: derivative, reflex

   Coordinate term: cognate

   • 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:

     Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 5:

     The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

   • 2016, Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition:

     Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latin etymon (parricida) was used in these senses.

2. Meaning as derived and conveyed thereby: The literal meaning of a term according to its origin, which may differ from its usual meaning when the latter relies on idiomatic conventions that are not conveyed by the term alone (that is, they must be known in other ways, such as experience, training, education, or dictionary lookup).

• cognate
• root

• “etymon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “etymon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• toymen

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon) or Latin etymon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ti.mɔn/
• Hyphenation: ety‧mon

etymon n (plural etyma)

1. etymon [from early 18th c.]
   • 1710, Lambert ten Kate, Gemeenschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche, publ. by Jan Rieuwertszoon, page 20.

     Deze kennisse van 't Gottische baent ons eenen weg om het Etymon van vele onzer woorden te ontdekken, dat buyten dit behulp onnavorschelyk zoude zyn.

     This knowledge of Gothic makes a way for us to discover the etymon of many of our words, that would be inscrutable without this aid.

• etymologie

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mon/, [ˈɛt̪ʏmɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ti.mon/, [ˈɛːt̪imon]

etymon n (genitive etymī); second declension

1. etymon

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “etymon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “etymon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

Learned borrowing from Latin etymon.

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈtɨ.mɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɨmɔn
• Syllabification: e‧ty‧mon

etymon m inan

1. (linguistics) etymon (ancestral form or source word)

• etymon in Polish dictionaries at PWN