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étymologique
A French adjective meaning either related to etymology or conforming to a word’s origin, borrowed from Latin etymologicus.
“The French adjective did not begin as the name of modern historical linguistics. Its earliest source-reported use, around 1550, describes compound names that reveal their “true sense”; the current word still has both an analytical and an origin-conforming sense.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Frenchétymologique
related to etymology; conforming to a word’s origin
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Latin · Late Latin grammatical traditionetymologicusetymological; conforming to etymology
- SOUND CHANGE
- French adapted Latin etymologicus as étymologique with French stress, vowels, and the learned -ique ending.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The Latin origin-conforming adjective developed the modern French senses “related to etymology” and “conforming to origin.”
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- ATILF · Académie française Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- CNRTL reports French use around 1550; the Académie dates the word to the sixteenth century.
2 CITATIONSÉtymologique — Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9e éditionÉtymologie: XVIe siècle; emprunté du latin etymologicus Étymologique — Trésor de la langue française informatiséÉtymologie et Histoire: c. 1550; emprunt du latin etymologicus AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 579 ↗
Names Latin etymologicus as the French donor and supplies century-level chronology.
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