capitonymic en · ADJ
Etymology
From capitonym + -ic.
Meanings
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(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: