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Definition of Etymologise
1. Verb. Give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word). "Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing"
2. Verb. Construct the history of words.
Category relationships: Linguistics
Generic synonyms: Construct, Reconstruct, Retrace
Derivative terms: Etymologizing, Etymology, Etymology
Definition of Etymologise
1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of etymologize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Etymologise
1. [v -GISED, -GISING, -GISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymologise
Literary usage of Etymologise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"[THE following selections from Duncan's Appendix etymologise (AD 1595) have been
made for the EDS by John Small, MA, the University Librarian, Edinburgh, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"The second part of the grammar is entitled, ' Appendix etymologise ad copiam ...
The Glossary appended to the 'Appendix etymologise' of 1595 contains the ..."
3. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"I of his etymologise), and in the various treatises on versification mentioned
by Professor Saintsbury in his Hist. Grit, I, 407-415. ..."
4. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of by Great Britain Public Record Office (1860)
"K., which is compiled partly from the etymologise, Books XIV., XII., the Historias
of Orosius, Book п., and the Master of the Histories. ..."
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