noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

acrosticborrowingcompoundconstructionformationisonym

Etymology

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

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