The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
The following etymons have been suggested: 1, pilum, Lat. the head of an arrow; the Spaniards and Italians call this ordinary cuspis.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
He happened to know a few etymons more correctly, and to have some little acquaintance with black letter literature, and hence thought to give more weight to lexicographical inquiries than had hitherto distinguished them.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
