argumentum ad etymologiam

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف argumentum ad etymologiam في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

An appeal to a word’s etymology in order to prescribe its meaning

I don’t know where you got that idea, but it’s wrong; it means “fearsome lizard”. Incidentally, ConservPride is commiting the logical fallacy known as argumentum ad etymologiam.

الواصلة

ar·gu·men·tum ad etymologiam

علم أصول الكلمات

() Latin argūmentum (“argument, evidence, proof”) + ad (“to, toward”) + etymologiam, accusative form of etymologia (“etymology”)