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Meaning of "paronymy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARONYMY

paronymy  [pəˈrɒnɪmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARONYMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paronymy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARONYMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of paronymy in the English dictionary

The first definition of paronymy in the dictionary is a play on words, paronomasia. Other definition of paronymy is the relationship between words with related derivations but different syntactic use. Paronymy is also the formation of a word based on a word from another language with little or no alteration in spelling or pronunciation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARONYMY


antonymy
ænˈtɒnɪmɪ
archenemy
ˈɑːtʃˈɛnɪmɪ
caconymy
kəˈkɒnɪmɪ
eponymy
ɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
homonymy
hɒˈmɒnɪmɪ
hypernymy
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪmɪ
hyponymy
haɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
meronymy
mɛrˈɒnɪmɪ
metonymy
mɪˈtɒnɪmɪ
polyonymy
ˌpɒlɪˈɒnɪmɪ
synonymy
sɪˈnɒnɪmɪ
tautonymy
tɔːˈtɒnɪmɪ
teknonymy
tɛkˈnɒnɪmɪ
toponymy
təˈpɒnɪmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARONYMY

paronomasia
paronomastic
paronomastical
paronomastically
paronomasy
paronychia
paronychial
paronym
paronymic
paronymous
paronymously
paroquet
parore
parosmia
parotic
parotid
parotid gland
parotiditic
parotiditis
parotis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARONYMY

academy
anatomy
army
astronomy
creamy
domy
dummy
economy
Emmy
enemy
filmy
Grammy
mommy
my
stymy
tammy
taxonomy
thymy
tommy
yummy

Synonyms and antonyms of paronymy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paronymy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARONYMY

Find out the translation of paronymy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of paronymy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «paronymy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

paronymy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paronymy
570 millions of speakers

English

paronymy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paronymy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paronymy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

паронимии
278 millions of speakers

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paronymy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

paronymy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paronymie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paronymy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paronymy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paronymy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paronymy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paronymy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paronymy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

paronymy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपमानास्पद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paronymy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paronymy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paronymy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паронімії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paronimia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

paronymy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paronymy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paronymy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paronymy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paronymy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONYMY»

The term «paronymy» is normally little used and occupies the 137.373 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONYMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «paronymy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «paronymy» 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 paronymy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARONYMY»

Discover the use of paronymy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paronymy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Substance and Predication in Aristotle
We shall return to these different treatments of paronymy and opacity later in this section. Even the minimal role of language in paronymy sketched in the preceding paragraph is problematic, however, for it threatens to limit needlessly the utility ...
Frank A. Lewis, 1991
2
Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology
72 On paronymy A matter of far greater importance is the paronymous use of qualitative names, dealt with in the next few lines (10a27-b11). After enumerating the diverse kinds of qualitative being expressed by qualitative names, Aristotle ...
Lambertus Marie De Rijk, 2002
3
Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being
Analogy and paronymy are both instances where being is said in many ways. Heidegger, when dealing with Aristotle, tends not to distinguish between analogy and paronymy. As noted, Aristotle uses the term 'analogy' at least once for the ...
Philip Tonner, 2011
4
The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics
Examples of derogatory paronymy by addition are Gershon Legman's “ cacademics” for “academics,” and “Phudniks” for PhDs (Holt 2008, 33). Condensations such as De Quincey's “anecdotage” (Freud 1963, 22) are also paronyms by addition ...
Walter Watson, 2012
5
The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their ...
Symptomatic of this seeming lack of systematic- ity is the fact that commentators have often thought that the notion of paronymy is not on a par with those of synonymy and homonymy.' Thus it will be useful to begin with the first chapter. But let ...
Wolfgang-Rainer Mann, 2000
6
Aristotle's Categories and Porphyry
... to call our x and our^y qua animals auvcovufia in Aristotle's specified sense of this term. c. Paronymy In comparison to oficovufia and auvcovufia the case of rcapu>vufia was the least discussed by the ancient commentators. In contrast to the ...
Christos Evangeliou, 1988
7
Aristotle's Theory of Predication
That is why, I shall argue, Aristotle does not allow derivative terms (except in the case of substance!72) to signify items in the categories.73 Let me stress again that for Aristotle paronymy concerns more than the form of expressions signifying  ...
Allan Bäck, 2000
8
A History of Language Philosophies
An example is found in the analysis of paronymy. Paronyms (or denominative names, in Boethius's translation), are derived names, such as brave from bravery or grammatical from grammar. Aristotle in Categories had described paronymy as  ...
Lia Formigari, 2004
9
The Conning, the Cunning of Being: Being a Kierkegaardian ...
But if the science of paronymy arises from the self-suspicion and self-defiance and self-defection of language, nonetheless, in its elaboration it would preserve the integrity of sense; it would release language back into the transparency of its  ...
Pat Bigelow, 1990
10
Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics
"Paronymy" is itself defined even more telegraphically than "in", but is also to be understood as a relationship between things not linguistic expressions: paronymous things (grammatical and brave ones, for example, like grammatical and ...
Montgomery Furth, 2007

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Paronymy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/paronymy>. Apr 2024 ».
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