etymon
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[edit] Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (etumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (etumos, “true, real, actual”).
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the Latin candidus (“white”), is the etymon of the English candid. |
[edit] Noun
etymon (plural etymons or etyma)
- A source word of a given word.
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source word
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[edit] References
- etymon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- etymon in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
