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et·y·mon    Audio Help   [et-uh-mon] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -mons, -ma    Audio Help   [-muh] Pronunciation Key.
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *(e)rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
[Origin: 1560–70; < L: the origin of a word < Gk étymon the essential meaning of a word seen in its origin or traced to its grammatical parts (neut. of étymos true, actual, real)]
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