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Etymology in sentence

9 examples of Etymology in a sentence

And in that episode, I answer the question and I get a chance to explain what would normally be kind of dry topics: optics, diffuse versus specular reflection, how light works, how light works on the retina, and even the etymology of color terms like white and black.
If you look at the etymology of the word statistics, it's the science of dealing with data about the state or the community that we live in.
There will be those who'll say that if we simplify spelling we'll lose etymology.
Strictly speaking, if we wanted to preserve etymology, it would go beyond just spelling.
With simplified spelling, we would normalize etymology in the same place we do now: in etymological dictionaries.
So, it's fun to think about the etymology of the word "patient."
The word’s Sanskrit etymology – rabhas, meaning “to do violence” – dates back even further, to 3000 BC.
The OED etymology ignores the non-English origins of the term, which can be found in the inventive linguistic terminology of continental European student radicalism.
Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion's designation.