Sample sentences for the
GRE study word etymology
etymology
can be used as a noun
1. etymology -- (a history of a word)
2. etymology -- (the study of the sources and development of words)
1.
copied this twaddling
etymology
into his Cratylus.
- from The Iliad of Homer by Homer
2.
to "Troilus and Cressida" for the
etymology
of "making" meaning "writing poetry..
- from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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