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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

capitonymic en · ADJ

Etymology

From capitonym + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Being or pertaining to a capitonym.
    • Capitonymic pairs that we perceive as English words — Concord/concord, Polish/polish, Reading/reading — are more satisfying than pairs that strike us as "foreign" […] 1998, Richard Lederer, The Word Circus, page 277: