Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Allied by derivation from the same root; having the same stem; for example, beautiful and beauteous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the same derivation; allied in origin; radically allied; conjugate: as, wise, wisely, wisdom; man, manhood, mankind.
- Having the same or a like sound, but differing in orthography and signification: as, all, awl; ball, bawl; hair, hare.
- Derived from a word in another language with some slight modification of form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.
- adjective Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as all and awl; hair and hare, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective semantics Having the same
root orderivation ;conjugate . - adjective semantics Having a similar
sound , but differentorthography and differentmeaning .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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That the playing with paronymous terms is in accordance with the spirit of the Greek language may be seen from the frequent employment of the device by Plato, e.g. -
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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There are innumerable instances of a non-correspondence in paronymous words, similar to that above instanced; as between _art_ and _artful_, _design_ and _designing_,
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Would it be possible for you to include links to this in your next comment? paronymous from 71.119.250.140 at Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22: 11: 16 +0000:
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_paronymous_ (or _conjugate_) words, _i. e._, those belonging to each other, as the substantive, adjective, verb, etc., of the same root, have a precisely corresponding meaning; which is by no means universally the case.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
qms commented on the word paronymous
"Gregarious" hints at a commonness,
"Egregious", however's, more ominous.
The first is preferred
As part of the herd
But, cousins, the words are paronymous.
August 12, 2016