SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Étymologie: étymologie
Documents staged disciplinary specialization.
History A: 1756 generalized research; 1836 science definition- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- CNRTL Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- CNRTL
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 197
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
When did French étymologie become the name of a science?
CNRTL reports a generalized research sense from 1756 but notes that the word continued to be called an art; it reports an explicit science definition only in 1836.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 197
étymologie
/e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi/ · noun
The French word for the study or historical explanation of word origins, attested in medieval forms long before its modern scientific scope stabilized.
01
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 02contextinstitutional lexicon
Étymologie — Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9e édition
Anchors the present French endpoint.
Current definition- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Académie française Editors
- YEAR
- 2024
- PUBLISHER
- Académie française
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The historical notice supplies separate dates for the research sense and science label.
The dossier resists assigning one false birth date to a discipline that stabilized in stages.