Home › Words › E › etymologeretymologeretymologer means an etymologist.EtymologyFrom Latin etymologus + -er.nounAn etymologist.e.g.“It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.” — 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).