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- A word with an identical form or derivation of another.
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hyponym
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- A term that is part of a larger class.
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hypernym
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- A word that embodies a class of words.
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euonymous
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- A fitting name.
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dionym
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- A name consisting of two terms.
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cohyponym
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- A word that is a hyponym of another word.
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ananym
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- A name derived from another name written backwards.
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allonym
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- An alias used by an author.
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pojmanym
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- An uncapitalized word derived from a proper noun.
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- bikini
- china
- coke
- xerox
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- pojma < Jim and John Pojman, the two brothers who created the term in 1975 + onym < Greek onuma ‘name’
- the term pojmanym is itself a pojmanym
onomasticon
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- A book, collection, dictionary, glossary, or lexicon of names.
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- Ancient Greek onomastikon, the neuter form of onomastikos ‘belonging to names’ < onomazo ‘I name’ < onoma ‘name’
- Specifically, the Onomasticon, a famous thesaurus of Greek synonyms created by the Greek grammarian Ioulios Poludeukes | Julius Pollux circa 180 A.D.