homonymy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English homonym

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Old French -ieder.

Middle English -ie

Middle English -y

English -y

English homonymy

From homonym + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˈmɒnəmi/

Noun

homonymy (countable and uncountable, plural homonymies)

1. (semantics) The property of being a homonym.

   Hypernym: colexification

   Coordinate term: polysemy

Synonyms

• homonymity (less commonly used)

Related terms

• homonymic
• homonymous

Translations

property of being a homonym

• Armenian: համանունություն (hy) (hamanunutʻyun)
• Catalan: homonímia (ca) f
• Czech: homonymie (cs) f
• Finnish: homonymia (fi)
• French: homonymie (fr) f
• Georgian: ომონიმია (omonimia)
• Hungarian: homonímia (hu), azonosalakúság (hu)
• Italian: omonimia (it) f
• Polish: homonimia (pl) f
• Spanish: homonimia (es) f
• Swedish: homonymi (sv) c

See also

• polysemy