Etymology
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1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name).[1]
Pronunciation
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onomastics pl (plural only)
- The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
- Synonym: onomatology
- Hypernyms: lexicology, (in sense of “origins”) etymology
- Hyponyms: anthroponymy, toponymy
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Translations
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branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
- Afrikaans: onomatologie, naamkunde, onomastiek
- Armenian: հատկանվանաբանություն (hatkanvanabanutʻyun)
- Basque: onomastika
- Belarusian: анама́стыка f (anamástyka)
- Bulgarian: онома́стика (bg) f (onomástika)
- Catalan: onomàstica (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 專名學/专名学 (zhuānmíngxué)
- Czech: onomastika (cs) f
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: naamkunde f, onomastiek f
- Esperanto: onomastiko, nomscienco
- Faroese: navnafrøði f, fólkanavnafrøði f
- Finnish: nimistöntutkimus
- French: onomastique (fr) f
- Galician: onomástica f
- German: Onomastik (de) f, Namenkunde (de) f, Onomatologie f, Onomasiologie (de) f, Namenforschung (de) f, Bezeichnungslehre (de) f
- Hungarian: névtan (hu), onomasztika (hu)
- Icelandic: nafnfræði f
- Ido: nomaro (io)
- Italian: onomastica (it) f
- Japanese: 固有名詞学 (こゆうめいしがく, koyūmeishi-gaku)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ономатологија f (onomatologija), ономастика f (onomastika)
- Malay: onomastik
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нэрзүй (nerzüj)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠷᠡ
ᠵᠦᠢ (ner-e ǰüi)
- Polish: onomastyka (pl) f, nazewnictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: onomástica (pt) f
- Romanian: onomastică (ro) f, onomatologie f (rare)
- Russian: онома́стика (ru) f (onomástika)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: имено̀сло̄вље n, онома̀стика f
- Roman: imenòslōvlje (sh) n, onomàstika (sh) f
- Slovene: imenoslovje n, onomastika (sl) f
- Spanish: onomástica (es) f
- Swedish: onomastik (sv) c, namnforskning (sv) c
- Ukrainian: онома́стика f (onomástyka)
- Yiddish: אָנאָמאַסטיק f (onomastik)
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