| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...syllable*, and syllables iuto words. 2. ETYMOLOGY teaches the deduction of one werd from another, and the various modifications, by which the sense of the same word is diversified. 3. SYNTAX, which comprises the order of words in a sentence, and the correspondence of one word to... | |
| Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti - English language - 1831 - 668 pages
...and into V when a consonant. ETYMOLOGY. Etymology teaches the deduction of one word from another, and the various modifications by which the sense of the same word is diversified, as il cavallo i cavalli ; amo, amai, buono, buonissimo, buonamente, and so forth. Of the Articles. The... | |
| William Wardlaw Ramsay - 1859 - 360 pages
...and versification. 3. Etymology, by which we are taught the deduction of one word from another, and the various modifications by which the sense of the same word is diversified.1 4. Syntax, by which we are taught the art of combining words into sentences. With the... | |
| William Wardlaw Ramsay - Latin language - 1859 - 178 pages
...and versification. 3. Etymology, by which we are taught the deduction of one word from another, and the various modifications by which the sense of the same word is diversified.1 4. Syntax, by which we are taught the art of combining words into sentences. With the... | |
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