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misname en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈmɪsneɪm/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name English misname From mis- + name.

Meanings

  1. A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
    • And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways. 2010, Sandra Hill, A Tale of Two Vikings:
    • Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences. 1994, Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni ...:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
misnames Number=Plur lexicographic

misname en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈneɪm/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name English misname From mis- + name.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To call by a wrong name.
    • Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers. 1990, Library Journal, page 9:
  2. (transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
    • The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; […] 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 69–70:
    • Elsewhere is pain in looking back on the blotted page misnamed Experience. 1860 September, J. W. E., “Our Autumnal Haunts in Leicestershire”, in Macphail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review, volume XXX, number CLXXVII, Edinburgh: Myles Macphail, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., published October 1860 (number), 1861, section V (The Bridge across the Soar), page 140:
    • Near-synonym: misnomer

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
misnaming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misnames Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misnamed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misnamed Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

misnamer

Hypernyms

misidentify

Relateds

give a bad name

Synonyms

miscall · misnomer · misnomer

Translations (6)

fi erehtyä (nimestä) (name incorrectly) · cmn 誤稱 /误称 (name incorrectly) · io misnomar (name incorrectly) · es mal llamar (name incorrectly) · fi kutsua väärällä nimellä (name incorrectly) · io misnomizar (name incorrectly)