Similar words: entomology, seismology, epistemology, theology, apology, biology, geology, etiology. Meaning: [‚etɪ'mɒlədʒɪ] 
n. 1. a history of a word 2. the study of the sources and development of words.
n. 1. a history of a word 2. the study of the sources and development of words. 
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31. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for flatter admits that its etymology is "doubtful" but suggests that flatter may be related to flat.
32. This article gives an annotation to the concept of "buffoonery" in terms of etymology and semantics.
33. The etymology of the word proclivity is ironically appropriate for this flavor of usage.
34. The historical origin and development of a word; an etymology.
35. Strangely, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology seems to agree with Brewer's and not with the OED—it's fellow Oxford University Press publication, in blaming galoshes on the Gauls.
36. Theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher Leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that's implied by its etymology.
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