单词 | etymon |
释义 | etymon /et"euh mon'/, n. , pl. etymons, etyma /-meuh/. the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor "heart," which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *k(e)rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart. [1560-70; < L: the origin of a word < Gk étymon the essential meaning of a word seen in its origin or traced to its grammatical parts (neut. of étymos true, actual, real)] |
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