zoonym
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzoʊ.ə.nɪm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzəʊ.ə.nɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]zoonym (plural zoonyms)
- (onomastics) The proper name of an animal (e.g. the dog name Fido).
- Hypernym: bionym
- Coordinate term: anthroponym
- 1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical GUide to the Language of Name Studies[1], page 107:
- The type of zoonym varies with the animal and its milieu. Pets often have simple hypocoristic names. “Professional” animals, such as show dogs and cats, have public pedigree names in addition to their private domestic names. Racehorses are frequently named for their sire (male parent) and dam (female parent) in order to show their line of breeding.
- (onomastics) The common name for a species of animal.
- Synonym: animal species name
- 1997, Serbian Literary Magazine, page 19:
- ln favour of their special relations with the front-Asian civilization there speaks not only the term knjiga but the zoonym opica as well.
- 2014, Cristiana Franco, Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece[2], page 11:
- In a study of considerable interest, he claimed to find a correlation between the offensive use of an anima's name and its position in the cultural taxonomy: it is not so much the animal's negative characteristics as its position with respect to humans that determines the choice of zoonym for an insult.
- 2014, Nachum Dershowitz, Language, Culture, Computation: Computing for the Humanities, Law, and Narratives[3], page 202:
- By contrast, the zoonym mockingbird denotes the bird species Mimus polyglottus, a bird which imitates the cries or the notes of other birds, and lives in southern North America, Central America […]
Usage notes
[edit]- The International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), the American Name Society (ANS) and NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics recommend using zoonym for the proper name of an animal (sense 1).[1][2]
- In older literature, zoonyms are occasionally found in use for the classificatory (“scientific”) names, which is not recommended by International Council of Onomastic Sciences.
Translations
[edit]proper name of an animal
common name for an animal species
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