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RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Did ἔτυμος itself mean the modern discipline etymology?
No. It meant true, real, or actual; only its substantivized neuter developed a technical true-sense meaning, and ἐτυμολογία is a later compound.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
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SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
ἔτυμος — A Greek-English Lexicon
Separates true/real from the later technical noun.
Adjective sense; substantive sense II- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones
- YEAR
- 1940
- PUBLISHER
- Scaife ATLAS · Perseus Digital Library
SOURCE 02contextlexical database
Logeion: ἐτυμολογία
Documents the later compound.
Headword ἐτυμολογία- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Classics Department Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- University of Chicago
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- LSJ separates the adjectival and substantivized senses and dates the latter to later writers.
RESOLUTION NOTEThe dossier makes the semantic and morphological steps separately clickable.