Word origin · etymology
English received the word through French and Latin from Greek etymologia.
The Greek formation joins etymon, a word's original or literal sense, with -logia, study or account. Etymon is related to etymos, ‘true’; this historical naming does not make a word origin proof of a belief.
How we know · epistemology
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