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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

  1. noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  2. 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.
  3. noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
  4. noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.

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.

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