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the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings Topics Historyc2, Languagec2词源学 - [countable]
the origin and history of a particular word Topics Historyc2, Languagec2词源
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French ethimologie, via Latin from Greek etumologia, from etumologos ‘student of etymology’, from etumon, neuter singular of etumos ‘true’.