meronym en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɛɹənɪm/
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Etymology
From mero- + -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).
Meanings
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A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree".
If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum, editor, Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 38:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| meronyms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
meronymy · automeronym · comeronym · meronymic · meronymous
Holonyms
Relateds
synecdoche · Wiktionary:Semantic relations · mereology
Synonyms
Translations (23)
fi osakäsite (word denoting part of whole) · bg мероним (word denoting part of whole) · vi phân danh (word denoting part of whole) · vi từ phân (word denoting part of whole) · pl meronim (word denoting part of whole) · de Teilbegriff (word denoting part of whole) · cmn 分體詞 /分体词 (word denoting part of whole) · fr méronyme (word denoting part of whole) · pt merónimo (word denoting part of whole) · fi meronyymi (word denoting part of whole) · ru меро́ним (word denoting part of whole) · de Meronym (word denoting part of whole) · it meronimo (word denoting part of whole) · es merónimo (word denoting part of whole) · sv meronym (word denoting part of whole) · de Bestandsbegriff (word denoting part of whole) · id meronimi (word denoting part of whole) · pt merônimo (word denoting part of whole) · af meroniem (word denoting part of whole) · el μερώνυμο (word denoting part of whole) · ca merònim (word denoting part of whole) · da meronym (word denoting part of whole) · hu meronima (word denoting part of whole)