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etymology 音标拼音: [ ,ɛtəm'ɑlədʒi] [ ,ɛtɪm'ɑlədʒi] n. 语源学,语源 语源学,语源 etymology n 1: a history of a word 2: the study of the sources and development of wordsEtymology \ Et` y* mol" o* gy\ (- j[ y^]), n.; pl. { Etymologies} (- j[ i^] z). [ L. etymologia, Gr. ' etymologi` a; ' e` tymon etymon lo` gos discourse, description: cf. F. [' e] tymologie. See { Etymon}, and {- logy}.] 1. That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection. [ 1913 Webster] 37 Moby Thesaurus words for " etymology": bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, eponymy, folk etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, origin, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantic history, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics, word history
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