Crossword clues for etymologist
etymologist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Etymologist \Et`y*mol"o*gist\ ([e^]t`[i^]*m[o^]l"[-o]*j[i^]st), n. [Cf. F. ['e]tymologiste.] One who investigates the derivation of words.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s; see etymology + -ist. Also etymologer (1640s).
Wiktionary
n. A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words)
WordNet
n. a lexicographer who specializes in etymology
Usage examples of "etymologist".
Maybe she would have had the ability to advise a genuine etymologist on demotic Gaelic, and maybe she thought this was her chance, now she was rid of Grey, to better herself.
Many Latin etymologists consider that in very early Roman times the pontifex was a maker of bridges, and that the making of bridges was considered a mystical art, thus putting the maker in close touch with the gods.
His pre-eminence in the latter faculty gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglice into Folliott, signifying a firstrate pair of bellows.
But as he sauntered through Odessa thinking about it, he did not see how the matter could be investigated any further, the etymologists having been thorough.
That is a kind of derivation which deranges and disconcerts all the science of etymologists.
It is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists.