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WORD DOSSIERS
adjective · later substantivized neuterexact headword
ἔτυμος
An Ancient Greek adjective meaning true, real, or actual; its neuter later supplied a technical noun for a word’s true sense according to its origin.
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etymological
Of, relating to, or based on etymology; an Early Modern English adjective whose exact formation is described differently by major historical dictionaries.
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etymologist
A specialist in etymology; an English agent noun formed on etymology with -ist.
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etymologize
To discover, formulate, state, or study etymologies; an English verb formed from etymology with -ize.
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etymology
The study of the true or original sense of a word—and of the changes that made it what it is.
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etymon
A technical English noun for an earlier source form, a foreign donor, or a base used in composition or derivation.
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étymologie
The French word for the study or historical explanation of word origins, attested in medieval forms long before its modern scientific scope stabilized.
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étymologique
A French adjective meaning either related to etymology or conforming to a word’s origin, borrowed from Latin etymologicus.
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étymon
A French linguistic term for an attested or reconstructed form used to explain the historical development of one or more words.
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ἐτήτυμος
A poetic Ancient Greek adjective meaning true, described by LSJ as a reduplicated formation beside ἔτυμος.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Ancient Greek / Indo-European
ἔτυμος
étymostrue, real, genuine
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- archaic Greek
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- exact historical form
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- 3
Ancient Greek / Indo-European
ἔτυμος
étymostrue, real, actual; in the neuter, the true sense of a word
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- Archaic and later Ancient Greek
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- exact historical form
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- 7
Ancient Greek / Indo-European
ἐτήτυμος
etḗtymostrue
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- Archaic and Classical Greek poetic record
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- gloss
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- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 4
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Is *setu-mo- the certain ancestor of ἔτυμος?
No. The analysis is serious and published, but the exact morphology and wider *set-u- family remain debated.
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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.
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Does the reduplicated form make *set-u- certain?
No. ἐτήτυμος is attested, but the *setu-mo- and *set-u- stages beneath ἔτυμος remain reconstructed and disputed.
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Is ἐτήτυμος a deeper ancestor of ἔτυμος?
No. LSJ classifies it as a poetic reduplicated form for ἔτυμος, not an older proto-form from which ἔτυμος descends.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 0
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
historical dictionary10 CLAIM LINKS
ἔτυμος — A Greek-English Lexicon
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones / 1940
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ἐτήτυμος — A Greek-English Lexicon
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones / 1940
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “etymos.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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