misetymologize

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ etymologize.

Verb

misetymologize (third-person singular simple present misetymologizes, present participle misetymologizing, simple past and past participle misetymologized)

  1. (lexicography) To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology.
    • 1978, The Individual and the Future of Organizations - Volumes 7-13, page 7:
      Even professors of education in their textbooks on education usually misetymologize the word as being derived from the Latin educere, to draw out.