Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paronymous word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word which is a derivative from another.
- noun A word of one language which translates a word of another with only a difference of termination or other slight change, as English canal for the Latin canalis: opposed to heteronym.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A paronymous word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun semantics A
word derived from the sameroot , or with the samesound , as another word.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek parōnumon, from neuter sing. of parōnumos, derivative; see paronymous.]
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From Ancient Greek παρα ‘beside’ + ονομα ‘-onym’.
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Examples
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My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged.
Gawker 2009
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My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged.
Gawker 2009
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Het-Pun: Het-puns leverage the double mean-ing of paronyms or homophones (Attardo, 2009),both of which are similar-sounding words butwith different meanings.
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mialuthien commented on the word paronym
paronym – a word that is related to another word and derives from the same root; a cognate word
July 19, 2008