etimologia — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivation noun The channelling of water away from a river or other source.
- 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:
- derivation The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- derivation (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- etymology (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
derivation — full definition
- noun The channelling of water away from a river or other source.
- noun The process of obtaining something, such as a result or an idea, from an original source.
- noun The tracing of where something, such as a word, first came from.
- noun (linguistics) The creation of a new word by changing an existing word's base or adding a prefix or suffix to it.
etymology — full definition
- noun The origin and history of a word, including the earlier forms and languages it came from and how its meaning has shifted.
- noun The branch of linguistics that studies where words come from and how they change over time.
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