etimologia — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivation noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or 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 A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- noun 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.
- noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes 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.