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The study of the origin of words. Etymology is not to be confused with entomology, the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects. See also bug.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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