Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
mononym: a word indicating the "single name" as generally applied to people e.g. Madonna or Plato. morphonym: a name of a taxonomic species. [41] [42] microtoponym: a type of toponym that is used locally, as designation for some toponymic feature that has only a local significance. [43] necronym: a reference to or name of a person who has died.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
raze – a verb meaning "to demolish, level to the ground" or "to scrape as if with a razor" rase – an archaic verb meaning "to erase" rehs – the plural of reh, a mixture of sodium salts found as an efflorescence in India; res – the plural of re, a name for one step of the musical scale; obsolete legal term for "the matter" or "incident"
A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones [1] —that is, they have identical spelling and pronunciation but different meanings. Examples include the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of ...
An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation). [1] Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". [2] The word "euonym" (eu-+ -onym), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named". [3]
ā—annus or aut.; á—aut.; Ắ—Antiphona.; a'—antiphona or autem. a.—annus. A.—Accursius or Albericus. A:—Amen. ab.—Abbas. abbāssa—Abbatissa.; abd ...
When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA) is a four-volume dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Oxford University Press.It contains over 5,000 entries concerning European history and culture from AD 500 to 1500 as well as topics related to the Byzantine Empire, Islamic history, and medieval Asia. [1]