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Definition: Etymon |
EtymonNoun1. A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "etymon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references) |
Etymology: Etymon \Et"y*mon\, noun; plural English Etymons, Greek Etyma. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression 'e`tymon the true literal sense of word according to its derivation, an etymon, from true, real, prob, akin to Sanskrit sotya, English sooth. See Sooth.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EtymonSynonym: root (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm. |
Word | Noun: word, term, vocable; name; phrase; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech; (grammar); ideophone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Etymon |
| English words defined with "etymon": Etym, Etyma, Etymic, Etymons. (references) |
| "Etymon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Etymon" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "etymon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | etimon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | етимон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kořen slova (radix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szótõ (base, root, theme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | etimo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fraue-ockle (root word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etymonay etimologia. (various references) этимон. (various references) etimon. (various references) raíz (base, origin, radix, root, root of the weld, stem, word root). (various references) sözcük kökü, köken (authorship, basis, bedrock, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, radical, root, seeds, spore, spring, wellhead, wellspring, womb), kök (base, Fang, grass roots, ground form, origin, radical, radical word, radix, rhizo-, root, stem). (various references) етимон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "etymon": etymons. (additional references) | |
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"Etymon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aymon, etymo, Eysmont, Teiman, temon, Tymon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "etymon" (pronounced 'Et"y*mon'): Cacodemon, Cinnamon, demon, Discommon, Glossocomon, Gnomon, Hieromnemon, ichneumon, Intercommon, mammon, Norimon, Persimmon, Phlegmon, Plasmon, Resummon, Solomon, Stasimon, summon, uncommon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-n-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: money, monte, motey, toney. | |
-2 letters: meno, mony, mote, nome, note, omen, tome, tone, tony, tyne. | |
-3 letters: eon, men, met, mon, mot, net, nom, not, one, ten, toe, tom, ton, toy, tye, yen, yet, yom, yon. | |
-4 letters: em, en, et, me, mo, my, ne, no, oe, om, on, oy, to, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-n-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: etymons, metonym. | |
+2 letters: enormity, fromenty, metonyms, metonymy, moltenly, momently, monetary, monocyte, monotype, mylonite, nonempty, tenotomy, theonomy. | |
+3 letters: contumely, copayment, enjoyment, heteronym, impotency, manometry, metonymic, modernity, momentary, monastery, moneywort, monocytes, monostely, monotypes, mylonites, nonsystem, oysterman, oystermen, solemnity, teleonomy, testimony, tonometry. | |
+4 letters: amendatory, anemometry, antonymies, commentary, competency, copayments, countrymen, deployment, employment, endothermy, enjoyments, entomology, goniometry, hemelytron, heteronomy, heteronyms, impotently, melanocyte, metonymies, monetarily, moneyworts, mycetozoan, nematocyst, nematology, nonpayment, nonsystems, nympholept, poultrymen, pycnometer, toponymies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 74 79 6D 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). - -.--. -- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110100 01111001 01101101 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E t y m o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0074 0079 006D 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398691798180 |
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