étymon
French, noun/e.ti.mɔ̃/
étymon is spelled É-T-Y-M-O-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étymon is a French masculine noun meaning “etymon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mot le plus ancien à l’origine du mot nouveau”.
What does étymon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineetymon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mot le plus ancien à l’origine du mot nouveau.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of étymon
- étymons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étymon?
- /e.ti.mɔ̃/
- \e.ti.mɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étymon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étymon in French?
étymon appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).