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etimologia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • etymology noun The origin and history of a word, including the earlier forms and languages it came from and how its meaning has shifted.

Senses

etimologia is used for these senses in English:

  • etymology (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

etymology — full definition

  1. noun The origin and history of a word, including the earlier forms and languages it came from and how its meaning has shifted.
  2. noun The branch of linguistics that studies where words come from and how they change over time.