hyponym

See also: Hyponym

English

Etymology

From hypo- (“under”) +‎ -onym (“name; word”); 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/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

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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

   The word “dog” is a hyponym of “animal” because dogs are a type 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.

   Coordinate term: meronym

Derived terms

• cohyponym
• cohyponymous
• hyponymic
• hyponymous
• hyponymy

 

Related terms

• instance
• specialization
• subcategory
• subdivision
• subset
• subtype

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/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
• 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

• hyponym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs.

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Danish

Adjective

hyponym

1. hyponymous

Inflection

Inflection of hyponym
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Common singular	hyponym	—	—2
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

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Swedish

Noun

hyponym c

1. hyponym

Declension

Declension of hyponym
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hyponym	hyponymen	hyponymer	hyponymerna
Genitive	hyponyms	hyponymens	hyponymers	hyponymernas