heteronym en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhɛt.əɹ.ə(ʊ).nɪm/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹə.nɪm/ (US)
- /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹoʊ.nɪm/ (US)
Etymology
By surface analysis, hetero (“different”) + -onym (“name”). Compare Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos). First attested in 1885 in sense 1. The coining of this term in sense 3 (as Portuguese heterónimo) is usually attributed to Fernando Pessoa.
Meanings
- (dated) Calque.
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A word having the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning and (often) pronunciation.
The word lead (/ˈlɛd/), for the metal, and lead (/ˈliːd/), for a leash, are heteronyms.
The word agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."
Near-synonyms: heterophone, homograph
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A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
Heteronyms are the distinct poetic personae that Pessoa adopted during the writing of his poems, and who were presented as their true authors.
2021, Niall Kennedy, “The Intercessor or Heteronym in Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa”, in Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, editors, Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 274:[…] the present paper aims at illuminating the origins of the concept under study, as well as presenting its readers with the reasons why certain characters in some of Yeats’s works go beyond mere masks and personae and fulfil the criteria to be considered as heteronyms.
2018, Hamid Ghahremani Kouredarei, Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam, “W.B. Yeats and the Introduction of Heteronym into the Western Literary Canon”, in Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, volume 8, number 8, →DOI, page 357:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| heteronyms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Relateds
alternative spelling · distinct · homophone & heterograph · homophone & homograph · alternative pronunciation · identical · different · same · heterophone & homograph · heterophone & heterograph · polyphone · homonym · homophone · synonym
Synonyms
Translations (28)
ru гетеро́ним (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · ca heterònim (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · fr hétéronyme (fictitious character writing in a different style) · sh heteronim (fictitious character writing in a different style) · cs heteronymum (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · km វិកល្បពាក្យ (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · sh хетероним (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · ru омо́граф (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pt heterônimo (fictitious character writing in a different style) · sk heteronymum (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pt heterónimo (fictitious character writing in a different style) · tr eşadlı (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · th คำพ้องรูป (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pl heteronim (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pt heterônimo (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pt heterónimo (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · sh heteronim (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · fi heteronyymi (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · pl heteronim (fictitious character writing in a different style) · fi heteronyymi (fictitious character writing in a different style) · es heterónimo (fictitious character writing in a different style) · es heterónimo (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · de Heteronym (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · sh хетероним (fictitious character writing in a different style) · hu heteronima (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · el ετερώνυμο (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation) · ru гетеро́ним (fictitious character writing in a different style) · fr hétéronyme (word having the same spelling but different pronunciation)