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ἔτυμον

TRANSLITERATION étymon

the true sense of a word according to its origin

DATE
Later Ancient Greek
SENSE
technical source form
FAMILY
Indo-European / Hellenic
CANONICAL KEY
node:10:etymon:attested:sense:technical-source-form

LSJ documents the substantivized neuter and its technical sense in later authors.

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Ancient Greek · Archaic and later Ancient Greek · true adjective

ἔτυμος

true, real, actual; in the neuter, the true sense of a word

SOUND
The neuter form ἔτυμον of the adjective ἔτυμος was used substantivally.
MEANING
“The true” becomes the true sense of a word according to its origin.
CHRONOLOGY
LSJ marks the technical noun in later writers rather than Attic prose.
SCHOLAR
Liddell · Scott · Jones
CONFIDENCE
established
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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

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STEP 02borrowingestablished
SOUND
English borrowed Latin etymon with learned spelling and English pronunciation.
MEANING
The source-word sense was retained and generalized across same-language, foreign-language, and derivational sources.
Merriam-Webster Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 556 ↗
STEP 02borrowingprobable
SOUND
French adapted learned etymon as étymon with French stress and a nasalized final vowel.
MEANING
The technical source-form sense was retained while expanding to include attested and reconstructed forms.
ATILF · CNRTL Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 573 ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

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