misetymologize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
mis- + etymologize
Verb[edit]
misetymologize (third-person singular simple present misetymologizes, present participle misetymologizing, simple past and past participle misetymologized)
- (lexicography) To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology.
- 1978, The Individual and the Future of Organizations - Volumes 7-13, page 7:
- Even professors of education in their textbooks on education usually misetymologize the word as being derived from the Latin educere, to draw out.