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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus|origins=grc ἔτυμος, grc λόγος}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /e.ty.mo.lo.ɡí.aː/^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /e.ty.mo.loˈʝi.a/^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /e.ty.mo.loˈʝi.a/^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ''' (etumologíā) ''f'' (genitive ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is derived from [[ἐτυμόλογος|tr=etumólogos|t=one who studies the true sense of words]] with the suffix [[m|grc|-ία|tr=-íā]].^(Wiktionary) Its first element is [[ἔτυμος|tr=étumos|t=true]], whose neuter [[ἔτυμον|tr=étumon]] meant the true sense of a word.^(Etymonline) Etymonline calls the whole “study of the true sense”.^(Etymonline)^(CGL 2021) Ἔτυμος is related to [[ἐτεός|tr=eteós|t=true]].^(CGL 2021)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Dionysius of Halicarnassus uses it for the analysis of a word to find its true origin.^(LSJ 1940)^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Philo and the grammarian Apollonius Dyscolus use it, and the related verb [[ἐτυμολογέω|tr=etumologéō]] means to analyse a word and find its origin, as Athenaeus says Plato did with the word for wine.^(LSJ 1940) Triantafyllidis notes that the Hellenistic word meant the true or original meaning of a word.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)
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+ Latin borrowed it as [[m|la|etymologia]], and English took ''etymology'' from Old French in the late 14th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Modern Greek [[m|el|ετυμολογία|tr=etymología]] is the origin and history of a word, in the modern sense taken from French and German.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 1st century BC – Dionysius of Halicarnassus uses it.^(LSJ 1940)
+ * 1st century BC – 1st century AD – Philo uses it.^(LSJ 1940)
+ * 2nd century AD – Apollonius Dyscolus uses it in grammar.^(LSJ 1940)
+ * Late 14th century – English borrows ''etymology'' through French.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|etymology]], the analysis of a word to find its origin and true sense.^(LSJ 1940)^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ἔτυμος|tr=étumos]]
+ * [[ἐτυμολογέω|tr=etumologéō]]
+ * [[λόγος|tr=lógos]]
+ * [[la|etymologia]]
+ * [[en|etymology]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}