etymologise

Other forms of etymologise

past tense

etymologised·

present participle

etymologising·

third person

etymologises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about etymologise

What does etymologise mean?

etymologise means "give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in etymologise?

etymologise has 5 syllables and divides as e-ty-mo-lo-gise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for etymologise?

Close synonyms include etymologize, etymologize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is etymologise a common word?

etymologise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.