transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈe-tə-ˌmän ]
noun
( plural et·y·ma -mə ; also -mons )
Etymology: Latin, from Greek, literal meaning of a word according to its origin, from etymos true; akin to Greek eteos true — more at sooth
Date: circa 1576
1.
a. : an earlier form of a word in the same language or an ancestral language
b. : a word in a foreign language that is the source of a particular loanword
2. : a word or morpheme from which words are formed by composition or derivation