Crossword-Solution: ETYMOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Etymology | n. | That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning. |
| Etymology | n. | That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ETYMOLOGY (5)
Some other techspeak senses of jargon words are listed in order to make the jargon senses clear; where the text does not specify that a straight technical sense is under discussion, these are marked with `[techspeak]' as an etymology.
They are chiefly used in a figurative sense and may be distinguished by a reference to their etymology.
Here again is fanciful etymology, ILEUS being similar to ILEOS (complaisant, gracious).] 1754 (return) [ Imitated by Vergil, “Aeneid” vii.
Now, then, the difference between property and possession being well established, and it being settled that the former, for the reasons which I have just given, must necessarily disappear, is it best, for the slight advantage of restoring an etymology, to retain the word PROPERTY? My opinion is that it would be very unwise to do so, and I will tell why.
Styles manufactured this Ddalean instrument of torture called a _knise_.'' A similar instance occurs in a misprint of a passage of one of Scott's novels, but here there is the further amusing circumstance that the etymology of the false word was settled to the satisfaction of some of the readers.
Quotes with ETYMOLOGY (3)
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
John O’Donohue gave voice to the connection between beauty and those edges of life — thresholds was the word he loved — where the fullness of reality becomes more stark and more clear. If you go back to the etymology of the word “threshold,” it comes from “threshing,” which is to separate the grain from the husk. So the threshold, in a way, is a place where you move into more critical and challenging and worthy fullness. There are huge thresholds in every life. You know that,…
a small nation resembles a big family and likes to describe itself that way. In the language of the smallest European people, in Icelandic, the term for "family" is fjölskylda; the etymology is eloquent: skylda means "obligation"; fjöl means "multiple." Family is thus "a multiple obligation." Icelanders have a single word for "family ties": fjölskyldubönd: "the cords (bönd) of multiple obligations." Thus in the big family that is a small country, the artist is bound in multip…
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).