Anthroponym

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The name of a person, especially a surname.

    "If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for secondary use. […] Therefore, concepts in commemorative urbanonymy form a ‘bundle’ of associations, ideas, and memories (comp. Stepanov, 2004), that appear in speakers as a reaction to these names, but at the same time speakers react primarily to the anthroponyms that form the basis of urbanonym units, and the street names themselves act only as ‘carriers’ of specific meaning, […]"

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"Whenever I see a sentence with Tatoeba's omnipresent anthroponym, instead of translating it, I make a similar one with any other name."

Etymology

From anthrop- + -onym or anthropo- + -nym. First attested in 1955.

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