etymon

Meaning

1. The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
2. Meaning as derived and conveyed thereby: The literal meaning of a term according to its origin, which may differ from its usual meaning when the latter relies on idiomatic conventions that are not conveyed by the term alone (that is, they must be known in other ways, such as experience, training, education, or dictionary lookup).

Opposite of

derivative#Noun, reflex

Synonyms

root

base

derivation

primitive

Translations

étymon

etimo

Etymon

étimo

ètim

etymon

étimo

έτυμον

etymon

kök

racine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).