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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc ἐτυμολογία}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛ.ty.mɔˈɫɔ.ɡi.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.ti.moˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''etymologia''' ''f'' (genitive etymologiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|ἐτυμολογία|tr=etumología|t=etymology]], from [[m|grc|ἔτυμον|tr=étumon|t=true sense]] and [[m|grc|λόγος|tr=lógos|t=word, account]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) Cicero rendered it in Latin as [[veriloquium]] and [[notatio]], and others used [[originatio]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Varro uses it in De lingua Latina, while Cicero still writes it in Greek letters.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was the derivation and explanation of a word from its root, a term of grammar used by Seneca and Quintilian.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore of Seville defines it as the origin of words, when the force of a verb or noun is gathered by interpretation, and notes that Aristotle called it ''symbolon'' and Cicero ''adnotatio''.^(Isidore) His Etymologiae took their title from it, and British medieval writers refer to that work by its plural.^(DMLBS)
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+ In medieval Latin it was also used of the interpretation of a name, as of the name of Jesus, and later of the investigation of a cause.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010) English ''etymology'' came from Old French in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero writes it in Greek and translates it as ''veriloquium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville defines it.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''etymology'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|etymology]], the derivation of a word.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin, plural)'' Isidore's Etymologiae.^(DMLBS)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|etymology]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}