• n. 語源，[語] 語源學

來自PIE*es, 存在，是，詞源同is, essence, sooth. -logy, 學說。即探尋詞的源頭的學說。

etymology

etymology: [14] The underlying meaning of etymology is ‘finding the underlying or ‘true’ meaning of words’. Its ultimate source is Greek étumos ‘real, true’. From this was derived étumon ‘true or literal sense of a word’ (acquired by English in the 16th century as etymon). Postclassical grammarians came to use this in the sense ‘root from which a particular word was derived’, as a result of which modern etymology, the study of etymons, deals with their history rather than their meaning.

etymology (n.)

late 14c., ethimolegia "facts of the origin and development of a word," from Old French etimologie, ethimologie (14c., Modern French étymologie), from Latin etymologia, from Greek etymologia "analysis of a word to find its true origin," properly "study of the true sense (of a word)," with -logia "study of, a speaking of" (see -logy) + etymon "true sense," neuter of etymos "true, real, actual," related to eteos "true," which perhaps is cognate with Sanskrit satyah, Gothic sunjis, Old English soe "true."

Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium. In classical times, with reference to meanings; later, to histories. Classical etymologists, Christian and pagan, based their explanations on allegory and guesswork, lacking historical records as well as the scientific method to analyze them, and the discipline fell into disrepute that lasted a millennium. Flaubert ["Dictionary of Received Ideas"] wrote that the general view was that etymology was "the easiest thing in the world with the help of Latin and a little ingenuity."

As a modern branch of linguistic science treating of the origin and evolution of words, from 1640s. As "account of the particular history of a word" from mid-15c. Related: Etymological; etymologically.

1. The hippies'etymology is contentious.

關于嬉皮士的語源是有爭議的.

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2. The historical origin and development of a word; an etymology.

一個詞的歷史起源及演變; (某字的)語源.

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3. Etymology: This phrase comes from World War II US Army slang.

詞源: 這個短語源于第二次世界大戰時期美國軍隊中的俚話.

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4. The origin of OK became the Holy Grail of etymology.

OK的出典成了詞源學夢寐以求的圣杯.

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5. So the etymology of vichyssoise will come first.

那么先來看一下這個詞的詞源.

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