The etymological fallacy: deriving a word's current meaning from its ancient root is a logical error — stauros may have once meant 'stake' but that doesn't mean it meant that in first-century usage

The etymological fallacy is the error of equating a word's current (or contextual) meaning with its etymological root. Even if stauros originally derived from a word meaning 'stake,' that does not determine what the word meant to first-century users. Words change meaning over time. Mike notes he will do a full video on this topic.