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What is the difference between historical and etymology?

historical | etymology |

As nouns the difference between historical and etymology

is that historical is a historical romance while etymology is {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} the study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.

As a adjective historical

is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

historical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

    • Usage notes

    * * See the usage notes about (m) for more.

    Synonyms

    * historic

    Derived terms

    * ahistorical * art-historical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A historical romance.
  • * 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
    • However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.

    etymology

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia etymology) (etymologies)
  • (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.

    • Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with .

    Derived terms

    * etymological * fake etymology * false etymology * folk etymology * popular etymology

    Related terms

    * etymon * etymologist * etymologize

    Hyponyms

    * onomastics

    References

    * * * English words suffixed with -ology