etymology
etymology 英 [ˌetɪˈmɒlədʒi] 美 [ˌetɪˈmɑlədʒi]
n. 语源，[语] 语源学
名词复数:etymologies
- Since you're reading this, then you probably have some interest in etymology, because it's the study of the history and derivations of words.
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- n. 语源，[语] 语源学
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1. How better to check out the etymology of the word than to ask its creator?
还有什么比询问其创造者来查询一个单词语源更好的方法吗？
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2. Some of it is about etymology, about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.
有一些故事是关于语源学的，关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。
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3. So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢？
- 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, original meaning," neuter of etymos "true, real, actual," related to eteos "true," which perhaps is cognate with Sanskrit satyah, Gothic sunjis, Old English soð "true," from a PIE *set- "be stable." Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium.
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