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What does etymological mean?

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Adjective
  1. (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
  2. (comparable) (of a word) Consistent with its etymological characteristics (in historical usage and/or the source language).
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Lots of the most interesting etymological claims that are bandied about on the internet and in the popular press are bunk.
We have no comprehensive dictionary, no etymological dictionary, no dictionaries of regionalisms, no modern thesaurus.
The word was formed by a rather circuitous route, according to the OED's etymological information.
Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
In etymological terms, the word Maremma derives from the Latin mare, or sea, and is related to the French marais.
Here follows, etymological notes and a transfiguration into modern English.

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