onomastics
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)bor. English onomastic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English onomastics 1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name).
- derived from *h₁nómn̥✻
- derived from ὀνομαστικός
- derived from onomastique
Definitions
The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins…
The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
- Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children.
- From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for onomastics. 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