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: e-ty-mo-lo-gise. The stress falls on "mo".

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.