etymological

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

linguistic philological chronicle language history account oratorical literal etymology phonetic expressive stylistic syntactic idiomatic syntactical
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Antonyms

off false ordinary incorrect mistaken invalid
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Related terms

etymology etymon etymologist folk-etymological

Phrases with the word

etymological analysis etymological fallacy etymological study

Examples

The etymological root of the word, sex, which originated around 1350 from the Middle English, sexus, means to divide. Vanna Bonta

I merely drew an etymological distinction Source: Internet

Another form, でございます de gozaimasu, which is the more formal version of de arimasu, in the etymological sense a conjugation of でござる de gozaru and an honorific suffix -ます -masu, is also used in some situations and is very polite. Source: Internet

Due to the very weak correspondence between sounds and letters in the spelling of modern English, for example, written syllabification in English has to be based mostly on etymological i.e. morphological instead of phonetic principles. Source: Internet

Etymology The word death comes from Old English deað, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic dauthuz (reconstructed by etymological analysis). Source: Internet

For example, etymological dictionaries provide words with their historical origins, change and development. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

etymol. etymologer etymologic etymological analysis etymological argument etymological dictionary