Abstract
The article is dedicated to the method of Isidore of Seville and the methodical foundations with their help he wrote his fundamental work. In the preamble, Isidore explained the content of his work: "Etymology is the origin of words, when the essence of a word or a name is revealed through explanation." It was the etymological approach, first applied in "Differentiation", that allowed Isidore to seek out the foundations of being, because he proceeded from the deep interconnection of the word and what it means. Terminological research allowed the use of the mind in the process of knowing the truth. In "Etymology" it is stated that concepts are not created and do not arise, but only exist and open in the word. It is noted that the concept of encyclopedicism, rooted in the ancient heritage, to some extent removed the contradictions of different levels of culture - material and spiritual, intellectual and covers other activities, which provided his concept of optimistic sound. To the encyclopedic genre "Etymology" can be attributed as a result of the wide coverage of topics and the method of sampling information from other works, primarily - encyclopaedic.
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