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ETYMOLOGY (Gr. eru/xos, true, andXo7<w, account), that part or branch of the science of linguistics which deals with the origin or derivation of words. The Greek word eru/tos, in so far as it was applied to words, referred to the real underlying meaning rather ...

... a/iajraropta, 6/uotraTOpta, the festival of "common relationship." The ancient etymology associated it with dirdnj (deceit), a legend existing that the festival originated in noo B.C. in commemoration of a single combat between a certain Melanthus, representi ...

... in iambics; Utpl N«5i', a work on the Homeric catalogue of ships; and a work on etymology ('ErviioXoyLiu). APOLLODORUS, of Carystus in Euboea, one of the most important writers of the New Attic comedy, who flourished at Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to ...

... is travels he had amassed considerable materials for a work he had projected on etymology, to be entitled a Comparative Lexicon of the English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Celtic Languages. He was undoubtedly an original philologist, who realized, "what was then ...

... gic of the Stoics, " to create and beget," was strictly in accordance with this etymology. The Teutonic Kunsl is formed from konnen, and konnen is developed from a primitive Ich kann. In kann philology is inclined to recognize a preterite form of a lost verb, ...

... e loth degree of N. lat ., while its limits to the E. and W. were doubtful. The etymology of the name, which to a Greek ear meant " swarthy-faced," is unknown, nor can we say why in official inscriptions of the Axumite dynasty the word is used as the equivalen ...

... he distribution over the earth of the races and nations thus formed. Though the etymology of the words permits in theory of this line of division between ethnology and ethnography, in practice they form an indivisible study of man's progress from the point at ...

... om nature, models, prints, &c. — his first academy, as he himself says, being a ETYMOLOGY plaster-cast shop in Cock Lane, Smithfield. Here he made a copy from an ancient cast of Cupid and Psyche, which was shown to Opie, and led to his being enrolled in 1807 a ...

... in 1881 estimated at 165,000, and is now said to be about 200,000. The popular etymology of the name Tabriz from tab = fever, rtz = pourer away (verb, rikhlan = poWL away, flow; German rieseln?), hence "fever-destroying," is erroneous and was invented in mode ...

... SUddrim or Orders, each containing a number of Massektoth (" weavings," cf. the etymology of " text ") or Tractates. These are subdivided into Peraqim (" sections ") or chapters, and these again into paragraphs or sentences. I. Zera'im (" seeds "), the first O ...

... , the protective covering having been formerly worn on that digit. The thumb by etymology means the " thick " finger, and is to be referred to the root turn, to swell up, become thick, seen in Lat. tumere, " tumid," &c. The term " thimble " is used of many mec ...

... refuse, and a synonym for Gehenna (Isa. xxx. 33 ; Jer. vii. 32). The uncertain etymology of the word is discussed in the Ency. Bib., s.v. " Molech," § 3, "Topheth."

... , vassault, &c.), the tenant and follower of a feudal lord (see FEUDALISM). The etymology of the word has been a matter of considerable dispute. The late Henri de Tourville, in his Histoire de la formation particulariste, maintained that vassal is derived from ...