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 loanword
2 : a word or morpheme from which words are formed by composition or derivation