Main Entry:

et·y·mon

Pronunciation:

\ˈe-tə-ˌmän\

Function:

noun

Inflected Form(s):

plural et·y·ma \-mə\ also et·y·mons

Etymology:

Latin, from Greek, literal meaning of a word according to its origin, from etymos true; akin to Greek eteos true — more at sooth

Date:

circa 1576

1 a: an earlier form of a word in the same language or an ancestral language b: a word in a foreign language that is the source of a particular loanword2: a word or morpheme from which words are formed by composition or derivation