Etymology
Antidote provides all the details on the origin of the headword: how it originated, its language of origin and its spelling and meaning in that language. If you would like to learn more about a language of origin, just click the orange link to see the corresponding article in the historical guide. Words whose unusual evolution merits more explanation are accompanied by a detailed note.
Etymologically related words
Words that share the same origin are listed in this section, with an indication of their common etymon and the source language. They are grouped into separate subsections when their more recent etymons are different. An arrow shows the words derived from an English word in the list, while a bullet (•) indicates a word derived directly from the same etymon as the first word in the subsection.
In the Etymologically related words section, clicking an etymon displays its meaning. Clicking a language, in small grey characters, takes you to the corresponding article in the historical guide. Lastly, clicking a word that is one of the “etymological siblings”, i.e. the words derived from the same etymon, displays the definition of the word.
In some cases a word may have more than one etymology. Pike, for instance, is derived from popular Latin and Old English words. In these cases, the historical dictionary numbers the different etymologies (1., 2., 3., etc.) and may show more than one “family” of etymologically related words.