hyponym

See also: Hyponym

English

Etymology

From hypo- (“under”) +‎ -onym (“name; word”); from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma), Doric dialectal form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪpəʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/
  • Homophone: hypernym
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.poʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

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Noun

hyponym (plural hyponyms)

1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.

   Dog is a hyponym of animal.

   • 1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.

Antonyms

• hyperonym, hypernym

Coordinate terms

• meronym

Related terms

• hyponymic
• hyponymous
• hyponymy

Translations

more specific word

• Armenian: հիպոնիմ (hiponim), ենթանիշ (entʿaniš) (rare)
• Catalan: hipònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下義詞, 下义词 (xiàyìcí), 下位詞, 下位词 (xiàwèicí)

• Czech: hyponymum (cs) n
• Dutch: hyponiem (nl) n
• Esperanto: hiponimo
• Finnish: alakäsite (fi), hyponyymi (fi)
• French: hyponyme (fr) m
• German: Unterbegriff (de) m, Hyponym (de) n
• Greek: υπώνυμο (el) n (ypónymo)
• Icelandic: undirheiti (is) n
• Italian: iponimo (it) m
• Japanese: 下位語 (かいご, kaigo)

• Kurdish: hîponîm
• Polish: hiponim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: hipónimo (pt) m
• Romanian: hiponim n
• Russian: гипо́ним (ru) m (gipónim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хипо̀нӣм m

  Roman: hipònīm (sh) m

• Slovene: podpomenka f
• Spanish: hipónimo (es) m
• Swedish: hyponym (sv) c
• Turkish: alt kavram
• Walloon: dizotrin mot (wa) m

See also

• hyponym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs.

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Swedish

Noun

hyponym c

1. hyponym

Declension

Declension of hyponym
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hyponym	hyponymen	hyponymer	hyponymerna
Genitive	hyponyms	hyponymens	hyponymers	hyponymernas