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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

paronymous en · ADJ

Etymology

From paronym + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the same root or derivation; conjugate.
  2. (not-comparable) Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning.
    • Ethology, ethnology, etiology, etymology, and entomology are paronymous.

Deriveds

paronymously

Relateds

paronymy · paronym

Translations (5)

hu paronim (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning) · io paronimo (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning) · ca parònim (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning) · eo paronimo (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning) · pt parônimo (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning)