Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the origins and forms of proper names.
- noun The study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields.
- noun The system that underlies the formation and use of proper names or terms used in specialized fields.
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- noun The branch of
lexicology devoted to the study ofnames andnaming , especially the origins of names.
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- noun the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names
Etymologies
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"word meaning" as you declare, but rather "onomastics" is the study of proper names and thus, "anonymous" is not strictly a fit object of onomatology.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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Yet onomastics between Etruscan, Latin and Greek prove once again that this assumption is false since Etruscan Χalχas is borrowed from Greek Κάλχας, Paχa is from Greek Βάκχος, leχtumuza is a diminutive based on a loan from Greek λήκυθος nb.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Yet onomastics between Etruscan, Latin and Greek prove once again that this assumption is false since Etruscan Χalχas is borrowed from Greek Κάλχας, Paχa is from Greek Βάκχος, leχtumuza is a diminutive based on a loan from Greek λήκυθος nb.
Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe 2009
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When we clear away the junk linguistics, this alleged Etruscan sound change of f h rests solely on foreign onomastics.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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When we clear away the junk linguistics, this alleged Etruscan sound change of f h rests solely on foreign onomastics.
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George R. Stewart (1895-1980), midcentury novelist and co-founder of the American Name Society, gave onomastics a good name with his classic "Names on the Land" (1945), a learned and rollicking act of patriotic toponymy.
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I think basely solely on my onomastics-are-destiny reaction to the name Leola that she was attracted to this pattern by the green print version.
August 2008 2008
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I think basely solely on my onomastics-are-destiny reaction to the name Leola that she was attracted to this pattern by the green print version.
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Why does this onomastics stuff interest me so much?
Look out, behind you--more Emilys! bradamant 2005
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Operacion Puerto and its onomastics is not related to heroics, but to bags of frozen blood, and the mystery of their identity and the performances they produced - Names such as Birillo, Amigo de Birillo, USA, Hijo de Rudicio, and Piti, treatments such as Siberia, Vino,
Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org 2009
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