etymon

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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.

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etymon (plural etymons or etyma)

  1. A source word of a given word.

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