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单词 etymologer
释义

etymologer

/ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒə/
Now rare
noun
An expert in or student of etymology; = etymologist.
  • In later use sometimes specifically: a person who practises etymology in an unscientific or primitive way. Etymologist is now the usual term..

Origin

Early 17th century; earliest use found in Edmund Bolton (?1575/5–?1634), antiquary and historian. From classical Latin etymologus (Varro; probably from Byzantine Greek ἐτυμολόγος (first attested later than the Latin word; from Hellenistic Greek ἔτυμον + -λογος: see -loger)) + -er.

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