Etymologize

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To trace and state the etymology of.
  • verb-intransitive. To give or suggest the etymology of a word.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to find or provide etymology for a word, to find etymon for a given word
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
  • v. To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To study etymology or the history of words; search into the origin of words.
  • To provide or suggest etymologies for words. How perilous it is to etymologize at random.
  • To give the etymology of; trace the etymology of; provide or suggest an etymology for.
  • Also spelled etymologise.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
  • v. construct the history of words
    • Verb Form
    etymologized    etymologizes    etymologizing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    derive    educe    retrace    reconstruct    construct   
    Form
    folk-etymologize   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.