étymologie

See also: etymologie, Etymologie, and etymologię

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin etymologia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”), from λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi/

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• Homophone: étymologies
• Hyphenation: é‧ty‧mo‧lo‧gie

Noun

étymologie f (plural étymologies)

1. etymology

Derived terms

• étymologiser
• étymologisme
• étymologiste

Further reading

• “étymologie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.