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