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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ONOMASTIC

From Greek onomastikos, from onomazein to name, from onomaname.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ONOMASTIC

onomastic  [ˌɒnəˈmæstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ONOMASTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Onomastic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ONOMASTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names. Onomastics originates from the Greek: "ὀνομαστικός", which translates to "of or belonging to naming" and "ὀνοματολογία", derived from "ὄνομα" meaning "name". Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as Named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.

Definition of onomastic in the English dictionary

The definition of onomastic in the dictionary is of or relating to proper names. Other definition of onomastic is denoting a signature in a different handwriting from that of the document to which it is attached.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ONOMASTIC


antonomastic
ˌæntənəˈmæstɪk
docimastic
ˌdɒsɪˈmæstɪk
drastic
ˈdræstɪk
dysplastic
dɪsˈplæstɪk
elastic
ɪˈlæstɪk
enthusiastic
ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk
fantastic
fænˈtæstɪk
gymnastic
dʒɪmˈnæstɪk
hypoplastic
ˌhaɪpəʊˈplæstɪk
inelastic
ˌɪnɪˈlæstɪk
mastic
ˈmæstɪk
neoplastic
ˌniːəʊˈplæstɪk
paronomastic
ˌpærənəʊˈmæstɪk
plastic
ˈplæstɪk
polymastic
ˌpɒlɪˈmæstɪk
pyroclastic
ˌpaɪrəʊˈklæstɪk
sarcastic
sɑːˈkæstɪk
scholastic
skəˈlæstɪk
stochastic
stɒˈkæstɪk
thermoplastic
ˌθɜːməʊˈplæstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ONOMASTIC

only if
only too
only-begotten
onocentaur
onomasiology
onomastically
onomastician
onomasticon
onomastics
onomatologist
onomatology
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeic
onomatopoeically
onomatopoeses
onomatopoesis
onomatopoetic
onomatopoetically
onomatopoieses
onomatopoiesis

WORDS THAT END LIKE ONOMASTIC

antineoplastic
bombastic
domestic
dynastic
fibroblastic
foam plastic
hyperplastic
lymphoblastic
megaloblastic
myeloblastic
orgastic
orgiastic
osteoblastic
phantastic
reinforced plastic
Silastic
spastic
superelastic
trophoblastic
unenthusiastic
viscoelastic

Synonyms and antonyms of onomastic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «onomastic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ONOMASTIC

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Translator English - Chinese

专有名称
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

onomástica
570 millions of speakers

English

onomastic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

onomastic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأعلام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ономастической
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

onomástica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নামসম্বন্ধীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

onomastique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Onomastik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Onomastik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

onomastic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

onomastic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Onomastik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

onomastic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

onomastic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपायकारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

onomastic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

onomastica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nazewniczego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ономастической
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

onomastic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

onomastic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onomastische
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

onomastic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

onomastic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of onomastic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ONOMASTIC»

The term «onomastic» is normally little used and occupies the 121.365 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ONOMASTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «onomastic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «onomastic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about onomastic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONOMASTIC»

Discover the use of onomastic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to onomastic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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You Name It: Perspectives on Onomastic Research
You name it. Perspectives on onomastic research, a diverse, international study of names and their study. In it 30 experts write on the theories and methods of their field of research and on various aspects of personal and place names.
Ritva Liisa Pitkänen, Kaija Mallat, 1997
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Theory and Typology of Proper Names
Something of this kind has hardly been done in socio- onomastics (but see Lenk 2002). In this discipline, a rather different type of research is practiced, seldom found in sociolinguistics: one investigates which linguistic or onomastic forms are  ...
Willy van Langendonck, 2007
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City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
R138 has an onomastic parallel in Q128, hence (p. 75) “shortly before 240.” R139–141 can be dated to c.290–250,17 and R142 to c.240–170.18 R146 has an onomastic parallel in Q132. As we have seen above, the wide dating of Qdoes not ...
Sviatoslav Dmitriev Assistant Professor of History Ball State University, 2005
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Judaism and Christianity in First-century Rome
The onomastic C. Julius at Ostia may indicate direct linkage to imperial freedmen. ... the highest rank among freedmen.67 The onomastic Livius similarly indicates linkage through freedmen of the aristocratic Ostian family, the A. Livii, which ...
Karl P. Donfried, Peter Richardson, 1998
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Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for ...
Most Jewish onomastic frameworks and formulae in the second and third centuries appear to have employed the same onomastic conventions as their African neighbors in the western provinces. Like their neighbors' names, Jews' names ...
Karen B. Stern, 2008
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Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the Early ...
In consequence of this bidirectional interaction, the concepts of primariness and secondariness look like results of those processes. This is why from the onomastic point of view, primary will be those proper nouns which as lexical items (e.g., ...
E. F. K. Koerner, A. J. Szwedek, 2001
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Actes du XVIe Congrès international des sciences ...
Québec, Université Laval, 16-22 août 1987 : le nom propre au carrefour des études humaines et des sciences sociales Jean-Claude Boulanger. Congresses Held by the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences City Year Title ...
Jean-Claude Boulanger, 1990
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The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural ...
The evidence presented in Tables 2, 3, and 4 consistently points toward a community whose onomastic practices were not uniform. To describe this community on the basis of simplified categories such as "Romanized" or " Hellenized" is to ...
Leonard Victor Rutgers, 2000
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Sabellian Demonstratives: Forms and Functions
The first four words seem to be acc. sg.;88 these may be onomastic forms or official titles.89 They may again point to a dead man. If this is so, the form udiins may be a verbal form of some sort, perhaps the 3rd plural of a transitive verb.90 ...
Emmanuel Dupraz, 2011
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The Latin Dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 Years of Scholarship
A third point by which identity, especially social identity, may be established is by the onomastic formula: for the period and the area that is the subject of this study, this means e.g. the use of double gentilicia, the use of cognomina, and the ...
Gabriël C. L. M. Bakkum, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ONOMASTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term onomastic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Where's home? The answer is not as simple - or big - as you might …
These smaller spots escaped Egypt's strict onomastic (or place-naming) code – arguably the microtoponyms of their day. Writing for ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
2
What's the one thing you'd check before you set off for the Masters?
Last week AWAAT dropped the following onomastic bombshell: “The name Gary is headed for extinction with only 28 kids in 700,000 births in ... «The Australian, Apr 15»
3
Call for Papers devoted to Names in SF, Fantasy, and Horror
... more than 500 words and a 50-word biographical sketch of the author including the author's name, affiliation, onomastic interests, and email. «SFWA News, Feb 15»
4
“The Rectification Of Names”—China Struggles With Its National …
Nobody could agree on a more suitable alternative word; so in an onomastic throwing-up of hands, the authorities just dumped the Chinese ... «VDARE.com, Jan 15»
5
Advice: I've been invited to a house that had bedbugs. Help!
I'm with you on the Mrs. John Smith onomastic drag business — it's sexist and, frankly, weird-sounding. Seeing my own name rendered thus ... «Boston Globe, Nov 14»
6
Dr. Know: The pronunciation of Willamette seems wrong to me.
Technically, that's an onomastic elephant, Will. Linguistic elephants have bigger ears, but I get your point. You'll be pleased to learn there's ... «Willamette Week, Oct 14»
7
672 - Licence to Map: the Other James Bond
... in mock complaint of his unauthorised onomastic appropriation. The writer replied in an equally humorous vein, offering the ornithologist “unlimited use of the ... «Big Think, Aug 14»
8
Baffoe: Rooting For The Baffoes In The World Cup
The onomastic mutual learning experience also made the jump to Twitter after a London kid of Ghanaian descent happened across a column of ... «CBS Local, Jun 14»
9
Is Christ a Name or a Title?
Part of his case is to show that previous scholars have tended to work with only two “onomastic” categories: “Christ” in Paul is either a “title” ... «Patheos, May 14»
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Maidana-Mayweather Undercard: Khan Re-enters the Mayweather …
... prizefighter later, too) and Mexican Olympian Marco Antonio Periban (a fighter much better equipped in the onomastic department, with a mix ... «XN Sports, Mar 14»

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