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Etymologist

Definition: Etymologist

Etymologist

Noun

1. A lexicographer who specializes in etymology.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "etymologist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

 

Crosswords: Etymologist

English words defined with "etymologist": Etymologer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Etymologist

DomainUsage

Song Titles

Spanish Etymologist, The (performing artist: Leo Kottke)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Etymologist

"Etymologist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Etymologist" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Etymologist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

etymologist

3
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Modern Translations: Etymologist

Language Translations for "etymologist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

etimolog. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الاتيمولوجى لغوى متخصص. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

етимолог. (various references)

   

Czech

  

etymolog. (various references)

   

French

  

étymologiste. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חוקר לשו ות, בלשן (linguist, philologist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

etimológus. (various references)

   

Italian

  

etimologista. (various references)

   

Manx

  

bun-ockleyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etymologistay

   

Portuguese

  

etimológico. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

etimolog. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

этимолог. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

etimolog. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

etimologista. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

etymolog. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

etimolog, köktenbilimci. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

етимолог. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Etymologist

Derivations

Words beginning with "etymologist": etymologists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Etymologist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entymologist, etomologist, etymolgist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Etymologist"

Words rhyming with "etymologist" (pronounced 'Et`y*mol"o*gist'): Aerologist, Agist, Agriologist, Agrostologist, Algologist, Analogist, Anthologist, Anthropologist, Apiologist, Apologist, Appanagist, Arachnologist, Archaeologist, Areopagist, Assyriologist, Atmologist, Bacteriologist, Battologist, Bibliopegist, Biologist, Bromatologist, Bryologist, Campanologist, Carpologist, Cetologist, Chirologist, Climatologist, Conchologist, Cosmologist, Craniologist, Crustaceologist, Crustalogist, Decalogist, Demonologist, Dendrologist, Deontologist, Dermatologist, Dialogist, Dramaturgist, Druggist, Ecclesiologist, Electro-biologist, Elegist, Elogist, Embryologist, Entomologist, Entozoologist, Epidemiologist, Erpetologist, Ethnologist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Etymologist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: gloomiest, myologies, semiology.

-3 letters: etiology, misology, motliest, otiosely, sitology, toilsome.

-4 letters: egotism, egotist, gimlets, glottis, gooiest, litotes, logiest, moistly, mooleys, motiles, motleys, mottles, mottoes, myosote, ologies, ologist, oolites, ostiole, semilog, sootily, stoolie, stylite, testily, toilets, tootles, tootsie.

-5 letters: egoism, egoist, gemots, gimels, gimlet, glimes, glooms, gloomy, golems, goosey, igloos, isolog, legist, legits, limeys, looeys.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: etymologists.

 

+5 letters: symptomatologies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Etymologist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 74 79 6D 6F 6C 6F 67 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01111001 01101101 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0079 006D 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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