mononym
noun/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)nɪm/UK/ˈmɑnəˌnɪm/US
Etymology
From mono- (“one”) + -onym (“word, name”).
Definitions
A single name or term by which a person, thing, etc., is known.
- The atlas and axis have special names, but most of the vertebra, like the ribs, are merely numbered ; among the arteries, the aorta only has a mononym ;
- As the heroine, the tall, thin actress who calls itself Capucine is as crystalline and icy as her elegant mononym.
A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.
- ISO 704 and ISO 1087 prescribe mononymy as highly desirable for standardized terminologies, but as experience shows, individuals in developing disciplines (having unsettled terminology) are rarely able to agree on mononyms.
- After usage has created consensus on a mononym, it becomes possible to treat the accepted (preferred) forms in a terminographic glossary...
The neighborhood
- synonymmonomial
- synonymmononom
- synonymmononomial
- synonymuninym
- antonympolynym
- antonymmulti-word expression
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mononym. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA