homonym

See also: Homonym

English

Examples
broad sense cite, sight, site gnu, knew, new, nu principal, principle right, rite, wright, write to, too, two vain, vane, vein way, weigh, whey your, you're strict sense bark, bark, bark fluke, fluke, fluke hoot, hoot moot, moot, moot, moot — Comprehensive lists run to thousands of pairs and are available in reference works such as Hobbs 2006.

Etymology

From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- +‎ -onym.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒmənɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑmənɪm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒmənɪm

Noun

homonym (plural homonyms)

2. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).

   Hypernyms: word, term

   Hyponyms: homograph (same spelling), homophone (same sound)

   2. (semantics, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.

      Hypernyms: word, term

      Coordinate term: polyseme

   3. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Usage notes

• Homonyms (in the broader sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
  • die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
  • the parasitic flatworm called the fluke, the fish called the fluke, and a fluke, part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
  • the metal lead and the present tense of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)

Derived terms

• hemihomonym
• homonymic
• homonymophobia
• homonymous
• homonymphobia
• homonymy

Translations

word with the same sound or spelling

• Albanian: homonim (sq) m
• Armenian: համանուն (hy) (hamanun)
• Bulgarian: омоним (bg) m (omonim)
• Catalan: homònim (ca) m or n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 同音異義詞 / 同音异义词 (tóngyīn yìyì), ^{(please verify)} 同音詞 / 同音词 (zh) (tóngyīncí)

• Crimean Tatar: omonim
• Czech: homonymum (cs) n
• Danish: homonym (da) n
• Dutch: homoniem (nl) n
• Esperanto: homonimo
• Finnish: homonymia (fi)
• French: homonyme (fr) m
• Georgian: ომონიმი (omonimi)
• German: Homonym (de) n, Homonymum n
• Greek: ομώνυμο (el) n (omónymo), ομώνυμος (el) m (omónymos)

  Ancient Greek: ὁμώνυμος m (homṓnumos)

• Hebrew: הוֹמוֹנִים m
• Hungarian: homonima (hu), azonos alakú szó
• Ido: homonimo (io)
• Indonesian: homonim (id)
• Japanese: 同音異義語 (ja) (dōon igigo), 同音語 (ja) (dōongo)
• Khmer: កល្បពាក្យ (kɑlpa’ piek)
• Korean: 동음이의어(同音異義語) (ko) (dong'eumiuieo)
• Kumyk: аваздаш (awazdaş)
• Latin: homonymum n
• Malayalam: നാനാർത്ഥം (ml) (nānāṟtthaṁ)
• Manx: co-ennym m
• Maori: kupu huarite
• Polish: homonim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: homónimo (pt) m (Portugal), homônimo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: omonim (ro) n
• Russian: омо́ним (ru) m (omónim)
• Serbo-Croatian: homonim (sh) m
• Slovene: enakozvočnica f, homonim m
• Spanish: homónimo (es) m
• Swedish: homonym (sv) c
• Tamil: பல்பொருள் ஒருசொல் (palporuḷ orucol)
• Thai: คำพ้องความหมาย (th) (kam-pɔ́ɔng-kwaam-mǎai)
• Turkish: homonim (tr), sesteş (tr)
• Ukrainian: омо́нім (uk) m (omónim)
• Venetan: omònemo m

See also

Euler diagram of choice semantic relations.

Nyms (with category if any)

Noun (category)	Sound	Spelling	Meaning	phone/graph
identical	same	same	same	homophone & homograph
homophone (category)	same	different	different	homophone & heterograph
alternative spelling	same	different	same	homophone & heterograph
homonym	same	same	different	homophone & homograph
synonym	different	different	same	heterophone & heterograph
heteronym (category)	different	same	different	heterophone & homograph
alternative pronunciation	different	same	same	heterophone & homograph
distinct	different	different	different	heterophone & heterograph

Further reading

• homonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• homonym (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

homonym (neuter homonymt, plural and definite singular attributive homonyme)

1. homonymic

Noun

homonym

1. homonym

Declension

Declension of homonym

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	homonym	homonymet	homonymer	homonymerne
genitive	homonyms	homonymets	homonymers	homonymernes

Swedish

Noun

homonym c

1. homonym

Declension

Declension of homonym

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	homonym	homonyms
	definite	homonymen	homonymens
plural	indefinite	homonymer	homonymers
	definite	homonymerna	homonymernas