Origin: et·y·mol·o·gy (noun, plural et·y·mol·o·gies)
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin etymologia < Greek etymología, equivalent to etymológ
( os ) studying the true meanings and values of words ( étymo ( s ) true ( see etymon) + lógos word, reason) + -ia -y3
1. The derivation of a word. Synonyms: word origin, word source, derivation, origin.
2. A chronological account of the birth and development of a particular word or element of a word, often delineating its spread from one language to another and its evolving changes in form and meaning. Synonyms: word history, word lore, historical development.
3. The study of historical linguistic change, especially as manifested in individual words.
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Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
My Diary - Leonardo Cardillo 