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Paronym

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A word derived from the same root or stem as another word; classes include cognates and naturalizations of foreign words.
  2. 2
    a word that strongly resembles another word in spelling wordnet
  3. 3
    A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word (some example pairs are cognate). rare

Etymology

Coined around 1846 from Ancient Greek παρώνυμος (parṓnumos, “derivative”), equivalent to para- + -onym.

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