hyponymy

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ -nymy or hyponym +‎ -y.

Noun

hyponymy (countable and uncountable, plural hyponymies)

1. (semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.

   Antonyms: hypernymy, hyperonymy

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

     By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: hiponímia f
• French: hyponymie (fr) f
• Galician: hiponimia (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰიპონიმია (hiṗonimia)
• German: Hyponymie (de) f, Unterbegrifflichkeit f
• Greek: υπωνυμία (el) f (yponymía)
• Italian: iponimia (it) f
• Polish: hiponimia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hiponímia
• Russian: гипонимия (ru) f (giponimija)
• Spanish: hiponimia f