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.

[edit] Noun

Singular
etymon

Plural
etymons or etyma

etymon (plural etymons or etyma)

  1. A source word of a given word.

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