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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. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.
"to strive toward, devote oneself to, cultivate" (virtue, vice, wisdom, art, etc.,… See origin and meaning of study.
As "an account of the particular history of a word" from mid-15c. As practised by Socrates in the Cratylus , etymology involves a claim about the underlying semantic content of the name, what it really means or indicates.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and how the meaning of words has changed over the course of history.
Thus it is related etymologically to Greek idein "to see," eidenai "to know," and to idea and vision. Beekes writes of histōr that "The word itself, but especially the derivations ... that arose in Ionic, have spread over the Hellenic and Hellenistic world together with Ionic science and philosophy."
psychology. (n.) 1650s, "the study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhē "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy).
stretch. (v.) Middle English strecchen, from Old English streccan (transitive and intransitive) "draw out to full length, spread out, prostrate (oneself);" also "to reach or extend in space" (past tense strehte, past participle streht). This is from Proto-Germanic *strakjanan (source also of Danish strække, Swedish sträcka, Old Frisian ...
Case-history is from 1879, originally medical; case-study "study of a particular case" is from 1879, originally legal; case-law "law as settled by previous court cases" is from 1861.
"the study of words," including form, history, and sense, 1828, from lexico- + -logy.… See origin and meaning of lexicology.
"word by which a person or thing is denoted," Old English nama, noma "name, reputation,"… See origin and meaning of name.