Apr 7, 2025 · The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.

Entries linking to etymology etymological (adj.) 1590s; see etymology + -ical. Related: Etymologically.

Origin and history of etymological etymological (adj.) 1590s; see etymology + -ical. Related: Etymologically.

"collection of words and phrases," probably a shortening of dictionarius (liber) "(book)… See origin and meaning of dictionary.

"relation of incidents" (true or false), from Old French estoire, estorie "story;… See origin and meaning of history.

Oct 25, 2017 · An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages, Edinburgh, 1864. Farmer, John S., Musa Pedestris, Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, privately printed in …

"go through and examine carefully and in detail" (transitive), from Old French cerchier… See origin and meaning of search.

"exempt from; not in bondage, acting of one's own will," also "noble; joyful," from… See origin and meaning of free.

"study of morals," from Old French etique "ethics, moral philosophy" (13c.), from Late… See origin and meaning of ethic.

Oct 25, 2017 · The original core of print sources in 2001 was the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989), the Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (1988), Weekley’s "Etymological Dictionary of …