hyponym

See also: Hyponym

English

Etymology

From hyp- +‎ -onym or hypo- +‎ -nym; from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma) ("appellation"), a Doric specific dialectal form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪpəʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/
  • Homophone: hypernym
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.poʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

hyponym (plural hyponyms)

1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.

   Synonym: subordinate

   Antonyms: hypernym, hyperonym, superordinate

   Hyponym: troponym

   Coordinate terms: synonym; near-synonym; meronym; cohyponym; more at Wiktionary:Semantic relations

   The words “dog”, “cat”, and “human” are hyponyms of “animal” because dogs, cats, and humans are types of animal.

   • 1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.

Derived terms

• co-hyponym
• cohyponym
• cohyponymous
• hyponymic
• hyponymous
• hyponymy

Translations

more specific word

• Armenian: տեսականիշ (tesakaniš)
• Catalan: hipònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下義詞 / 下义词 (xiàyìcí), 下位詞 / 下位词 (xiàwèicí)

• Czech: hyponymum (cs) n
• Danish: hyponym (da) n, underbegreb (da) n
• Dutch: hyponiem (nl) n
• Esperanto: hiponimo
• Finnish: alakäsite (fi), hyponyymi (fi)
• French: hyponyme (fr) m
• Galician: hipónimo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰიპონიმი (hiṗonimi)
• German: Unterbegriff (de) m, Hyponym (de) n
• Greek: υπώνυμο (el) n (ypónymo)
• Hungarian: hiponima (hu), alárendelt fogalom/szó/név/kifejezés
• Icelandic: undirheiti (is) n
• Indonesian: hiponim (id)
• Italian: iponimo (it) m
• Japanese: 下位語 (ja) (かいご, kaigo)
• Korean: 하위어 (ko) (hawieo), 하의어 (ko) (hauieo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîponîm

• Malay: hiponim
• Occitan: iponim m (Gascon)
• Polish: hiponim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: hipónimo (pt) m (Portugal), hipônimo (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: hiponim n
• Russian: гипо́ним (ru) m (gipónim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хипо̀нӣм m

  Roman: hipònīm (sh) m

• Slovene: podpomenka f
• Spanish: hipónimo (es) m
• Swedish: hyponym (sv) c
• Turkish: alt kavram
• Vietnamese: từ hạ vị
• Walloon: dizotrin mot (wa) m

See also

• category, class, kind, instance, specialization, subcategory, subdivision, subset, subtype, type; is-a

Danish

Adjective

hyponym

1. hyponymous

Inflection

Inflection of hyponym

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	hyponym	—	—2
indefinite neuter singular	hyponymt	—	—2
plural	hyponyme	—	—2
definite attributive1	hyponyme	—	—

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Noun

hyponym n (singular definite hyponymet, plural indefinite hyponymer)

1. hyponym

   Synonym: underbegreb

Declension

Declension of hyponym

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hyponym	hyponymet	hyponymer	hyponymerne
genitive	hyponyms	hyponymets	hyponymers	hyponymernes

Swedish

Noun

hyponym c

1. (semantics) a hyponym

Declension

Declension of hyponym

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hyponym	hyponyms
	definite	hyponymen	hyponymens
plural	indefinite	hyponymer	hyponymers
	definite	hyponymerna	hyponymernas

Related terms

• hyponymi

References

• hyponym in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hyponym in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)