Online Etymology DictionaryEtymology Entomology What's in a name? That which we call a centipede by any other name would be as... uh... parasitic? By Talia Felix, Assistant Editor. This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a
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