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(lexicography) To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology..
Even professors of education in their textbooks on education usually misetymologize the word as being derived from the Latin educere, to draw out.
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Misetymologize means (lexicography) To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology..
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Even professors of education in their textbooks on education usually misetymologize the word as being derived from the Latin educere, to draw out.
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