paronomasia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin paronomasia, from Ancient Greek παρονομασία (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”), from παρα- (para-) + ὀνομασία (onomasía, “naming”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
paronomasia (countable and uncountable, plural paronomasias)
- (rhetoric) A pun or play on words.
- 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
- […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’ Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is ‘No-Fuck’.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a pun or play on words
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References[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin paronomasia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑronoˌmɑsiɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝ro̞no̞ˌmɑ̝s̠iɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑsiɑ
- Syllabification(key): pa‧ro‧no‧ma‧si‧a
Noun[edit]
paronomasia
Declension[edit]
Inflection of paronomasia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | paronomasia | paronomasiat | ||
genitive | paronomasian | paronomasioiden paronomasioitten | ||
partitive | paronomasiaa | paronomasioita | ||
illative | paronomasiaan | paronomasioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | paronomasia | paronomasiat | ||
accusative | nom. | paronomasia | paronomasiat | |
gen. | paronomasian | |||
genitive | paronomasian | paronomasioiden paronomasioitten paronomasiainrare | ||
partitive | paronomasiaa | paronomasioita | ||
inessive | paronomasiassa | paronomasioissa | ||
elative | paronomasiasta | paronomasioista | ||
illative | paronomasiaan | paronomasioihin | ||
adessive | paronomasialla | paronomasioilla | ||
ablative | paronomasialta | paronomasioilta | ||
allative | paronomasialle | paronomasioille | ||
essive | paronomasiana | paronomasioina | ||
translative | paronomasiaksi | paronomasioiksi | ||
abessive | paronomasiatta | paronomasioitta | ||
instructive | — | paronomasioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin paronomasia.
Noun[edit]
paronomasia f (plural paronomasie)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- paronomasia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek παρονομασία (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/, [pärɔnɔˈmäs̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/, [päronoˈmäːs̬iä]
Noun[edit]
paronomasia f (genitive paronomasiae); first declension
- A figure of speech; pun or play on words which sound alike but have different meanings, paronomasia.
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | paronomasia | paronomasiae |
Genitive | paronomasiae | paronomasiārum |
Dative | paronomasiae | paronomasiīs |
Accusative | paronomasiam | paronomasiās |
Ablative | paronomasiā | paronomasiīs |
Vocative | paronomasia | paronomasiae |
Synonyms[edit]
- (paronomasia): agnōminātiō
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: paronomàsia
- French: paronomase
- English: paronomasia
- Italian: paronomasia
- Portuguese: paronomásia
- Spanish: paronomasia
References[edit]
- “paronomasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paronomasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “paronomasia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ryan Stark, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 190-95.
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
paronomasia f (plural paronomasias)
Further reading[edit]
- “paronomasia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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