The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
I will even allow, willingly, that a more perfect Hebrew scholar than myself may esteem my etymons fanciful and incorrect.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
Ask for their etymons and meaning, and then decide.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Of these Tartar etymons I shall at present content myself with citing one, though, if necessary, it were easy to adduce hundreds.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
