μετωνυμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μετώνυμος (metṓnumos) (from μετα- (meta-) +‎ ὄνομα (ónoma)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.tɔː.ny.mí.aː/ → /me.to.nyˈmi.a/ → /me.to.niˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.tɔː.ny.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.to.niˈmi.a/

Noun

μετωνῠμίᾱ • (metōnumíā) f (genitive μετωνῠμίᾱς); first declension

1. change of name
2. (rhetoric) metonymy

Declension

First declension of ἡ μετωνῠμίᾱ; τῆς μετωνῠμίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μετωνῠμίᾱ hē metōnumíā	τὼ μετωνῠμίᾱ tṑ metōnumíā	αἱ μετωνῠμίαι hai metōnumíai
Genitive	τῆς μετωνῠμίᾱς tês metōnumíās	τοῖν μετωνῠμίαιν toîn metōnumíain	τῶν μετωνῠμιῶν tôn metōnumiôn
Dative	τῇ μετωνῠμίᾳ têi metōnumíāi	τοῖν μετωνῠμίαιν toîn metōnumíain	ταῖς μετωνῠμίαις taîs metōnumíais
Accusative	τὴν μετωνῠμίᾱν tḕn metōnumíān	τὼ μετωνῠμίᾱ tṑ metōnumíā	τᾱ̀ς μετωνῠμίᾱς tā̀s metōnumíās
Vocative	μετωνῠμίᾱ metōnumíā	μετωνῠμίᾱ metōnumíā	μετωνῠμίαι metōnumíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μετωνυμικός (metōnumikós)
  • → English: metonymic

Descendants

Descendants

• → Greek: μετωνυμία (metonymía) (learned)
• → Late Latin: metōnymia
  • → Czech: metonymie
  • → Danish: metonymi
  • → Dutch: metonymia
  • → English: metonymy
  • → Finnish: metonymia
  • → French: métonymie
    • → Romanian: metonimie
    • → Turkish: metonimi
  • → German: Metonymie
  • → Irish: meatonaime
  • → Italian: metonimia (learned)
  • → Polish: metonimia
  • → Portuguese: metonímia (learned)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: metonìmija
  • → Spanish: metonimia (learned)
• → Macedonian: метонимија (metonimija)
• → Russian: метони́мия (metonímija)
• → Welsh: trawsenw (calque)

Further reading

• μετωνυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μετωνυμία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “μετωνυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press