antonīms

See also: antònims

Latvian

Etymology

A modern coinage, meant to be the opposite of sinonīms, with components derived from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”) and ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), with variants that arose in various European languages around 1850-1870. It was borrowed into Latvian and made into a masculine first-declension noun (ending -s), by analogy with sinonīms.

Pronunciation

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Noun

antonīms m (1st declension)

1. antonym (one of two or more linguistic elements with opposed meanings)

   leksiskie antonīmi ― lexical antonyms

   vardam “melns” antonīms ir “balts” ― the antonyms of the word “black” is “white”

   aptaujas lapā bija minēti 43 antonīmi ― in the questionnaire, 43 antonyms were mentioned

Declension

Declension of antonīms (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	antonīms	antonīmi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	antonīmu	antonīmus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	antonīma	antonīmu
dative (datīvs)	antonīmam	antonīmiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	antonīmu	antonīmiem
locative (lokatīvs)	antonīmā	antonīmos
vocative (vokatīvs)	antonīm	antonīmi

Antonyms

• sinonīms

See also

• homonīms