1 An Overview of the Current Supreme Court Justices The Supreme Court of the United States, or Scotus, was founded in 1789 with the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Etymology (/ËÉt.ÉªËmÉl.É.dÊi/) is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By extension, the term the etymology (of a word) means the origin of the particular word. For a language such as Greek with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods of their history and when they entered the languages in question.
The word etymology is derived from the Greek word á¼ÏÏÎ¼Î¿Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î±, etymologia, itself from á¼ÏÏÎ¼Î¿Î½, etymon, meaning true sense, and the suffix-logia, denoting the study of. In linguistics, the term etymon is used to refer to a word or morpheme from which a later word is derived.tymologists apply a number of methods to study the origins of words, some of which are: 1  Philological research. 2  Changes in the form and meaning of the word can be traced with the aid of older texts, if such are available. 3  Making use of dialectological data.