1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 than to the origin. It was the Stoics who asserted that the discovery of TO trvfiov would explain the essence of the things and ideas represented by words. Plato in the Cralylus makes a nearer approach to the modern view when he connects, e.g. yvvr;, woman, w…
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