Etymological

Word ETYMOLOGICAL
Character 12
Hyphenation et y mo log ic al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Etymological"

What do we mean by etymological?

Of or relating to etymology or based on the principles of etymology. adjective

Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words. adjective

Of or relating to etymology. adjective

Consistent with its etymological characteristics (in historical usage and/or the source language). adjective

Based on or belonging to etymology adjective

Of or relating to etymology.

(of a word) Consistent with its etymological characteristics (in historical usage and/or the source language).

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The word "etymological" in example sentences

The word chowder has its etymological roots in the Latin word caldaria, meaning a place to warm things and later a cooking pot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Incidentally, Tennyson’s “samite” (inMorte d’Arthur, as worn by the disembodied arm that belongs to the Lady of the Lake) was a brilliantly contrived exercise in etymological archaeology, and strictly speakingmeant (via the Latin samitum and, in turn, the Greek hexamiton) a six-ply silk brocade incorporating gold and silver threads, much in vogue during the Middle Ages, but let us not be deflected. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ne + cedere is the root = “not” + “withdraw” — in other words the etymological premise of the idea in the word is a PRESUMPTION of deference or cession of power, which cession or deference is foregone or abandoned ONLY in the “necessary” case and then only to the degree “proper” or “belonging to” the isolated occasion or circumstance giving rise to the necessity that overcomes the presumption. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the things I've found irritating about Japanese kokugo-jiten is the absence of the kind of etymological information we take for granted in most of our English dictionaries. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I wouldn’t blame you; this is a commonly-held belief known as the etymological fallacy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, ❋ Flora Ross Amos (N/A)

It has divided Ruthenian writers into two great camps: the "etymological", which retains the old system of spelling, and the "phonetic", which advocates the new system. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using "etymological" grounds for justification. ❋ Unknown (1991)

He finds it a mark of prejudice on the part of those opponents of change who use "etymological" arguments, and he maintains that all English etymologists favor improved orthography. ❋ Unknown (1981)

T-SHIRT 1. But see the etymological note about “screw, n.1,” OED. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

While this may take the form of a literalism that is technically justifiable on etymological grounds, it is distinct from nitpicking in so far as it refuses to recognise a universally-accepted generalised sense of the term that is included in the dictionary definition and is therefore incorrect. posted by Hal Duncan | 5: 36 PM ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

For me, maybe because I subconsciously recognise the etymological root (and making the “rapture” connection was a sort of forehead-slapping “duh!” moment for me), that thread title is instantly understandable, as conventional as “the rape of Belgium” or “the rape of the countryside”. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Nevertheless, ongoing archeological and etymological investigations into the Exodus have produced some tantalizing items and scholarship. ❋ Roger Isaacs (2011)

Mark Pagel, of the University of Reading, etymological study shows that certain words are as old as the Ice Age: ❋ Unknown (2009)

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