PERMANENT SOURCE RECORD
ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYmw-etymologize
SOURCE
RECORD.
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10 PUBLIC LINKS INTO THE GRAPH.
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historical dictionarymw-etymologize
Etymologize — Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 87GRADE Acontext
The verb came before the science label.
Etymologize is reported from 1532 or the 1530s, while Etymonline dates etymology in the modern “science of linguistic analysis” sense to the 1640s.
*set-u-
*set-u- → ἔτυμος → ἐτυμολογία → etymologia → ethimologie → etymology → etymologize
First Known Use: 1532Supplies the exact-year verb report.
etymologize dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does etymologize begin in 1532 or the 1530s?
The reports are compatible at different precision: Merriam-Webster gives 1532 and Etymonline gives the 1530s.
First Known Use: 1532Supplies the exact-year report.
resolvedcontextestablished
Did the transitive and intransitive senses appear together?
Not in the reviewed record. Transitive use is reported in the 1530s; Etymonline places the intransitive study-or-practice use in the 1650s.
Transitive and intransitive definitionsDocuments both current grammatical uses.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 600supportsestablished
etymologize → etymology
Present-Day English → Present-Day English · derivation
- SOUND
- English adds verb-forming -ize to etymology.
- MEANING
- The name of the inquiry becomes the act of discovering, stating, or studying etymologies.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Douglas Harper
Definitions and First Known UseDefines transitive and intransitive uses and reports 1532.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
etymologizeSOURCE-REPORTED
etymologize
Merriam-Webster first-known-use report for transitive etymologize
OPEN WITNESS 150 ↗053
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
etymologize
Englishpractice verb in the same technical family
etymologize
Englishpractice verb in the same technical family
etymologise
British Englishspelling variant of the practice verb
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 2supports
Early Modern England
Supplies the exact-year report.
First Known Use of transitive etymologize: 1532 · regionalstage 4supports
Global English
Documents both current grammatical uses.
Current transitive and intransitive definitions · global070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
1 entry-scoped citations map reviewed dossier paths onto the canonical claims above.