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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

onomastic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɑː.nəˈmæs.tɪk/ (US)
  • /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪk/ (US)
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  • /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)bor. English onomastic Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a personal or place name.
    • The core of the study consists of an onomastic analysis and comparison of some selected areas of the urbanonymic system; I also delineate the characteristics of different urbanonymic types. 2013, David Vaculík, “Parts of the city of Ostrava – The past and current state of urbanonymy”, in Masaryk University Brno, page 403:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to onomastics.

Deriveds

onomastically · onomastics

Relateds

onomastician

Translations (11)

sv onomastisk (of, or relating to onomastics) · gl onomástico (of, or relating to onomastics) · es onomástico (of, or relating to onomastics) · it onomastico (of, or relating to onomastics) · ca onomàstic (of, or relating to onomastics) · fr onomastique (of, or relating to onomastics) · de onomastisch (of, or relating to onomastics) · pl onomastyczny (of, or relating to onomastics) · fi nimistöntutkimus- (of, or relating to onomastics) · ro onomastic (of, or relating to onomastics) · pt onomástico (of, or relating to onomastics)