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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

anthroponymous en · ADJ

Etymology

From anthroponym + -ous. By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onym + -ous = anthropo- + -nym + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to an anthroponym.
    • It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely. 2013, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396:
    • Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders. 2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 72:
    • Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village. 2016, Order and Chivalry, page 53:

Relateds

anthroponymy

Translations (1)

pl antroponimiczny (Translations)