Etymology vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
etymology | interpretation |
(uncountable) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word.
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
As nouns the difference between etymology and interpretation
is that etymology is (uncountable) the study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words while interpretation is interpretation.etymology
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* Not to be confused with .Derived terms
* etymological * fake etymology * false etymology * folk etymology * popular etymologyHyponyms
* onomasticsReferences
* * * English words suffixed with -ologyinterpretation
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- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''