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historical dictionaryetymonline-etymological

Etymological — Online Etymology Dictionary

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Douglas Harper
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
Etymonline
DOI
Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
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EDGE 586challengesprobable

etymological → etymologicus

Present-Day English → Latin · learned formation

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English drops Latin -us through the learned adjective etymologic and adds adjectival -al; a competing internal etymology + -ical analysis remains visible in the graph.
MEANING
A Latin adjective about word origins becomes the English adjective of relation or conformity.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Merriam-Webster Editors
Word origin: etymology + -ical

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EDGE 607supportsproposed

etymological → etymology

Present-Day English → Present-Day English · competing derivation

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English etymological is alternatively segmented as etymology plus -ical.
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The discipline noun becomes a relational adjective.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Douglas Harper
Word origin: etymology + -ical

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etymological

etymology

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base noun in the competing internal segmentation

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