misetymologize
verbEtymology From mis- + etymologize.
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Human sciences, Lexicography, Linguistics, Sciences To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology.
- Even professors of education in their textbooks on education usually misetymologize the word as being derived from the Latin educere, to draw out.1978, The Individual and the Future of Organizations - Volumes 7-13, page 7:
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