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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TAUTONYM

From Greek tautonymos.
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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 TAUTONYM

tautonym  [ˈtɔːtənɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTONYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tautonym 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 TAUTONYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tautonym

A tautonym is a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, for example Bison bison. The first part of the name is the name of the genus and the second part is referred to as the specific epithet in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants and the specific name in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Tautonymy is permissible in zoological nomenclature. In past editions of the zoological Code the term tautonym was used, but it has now been replaced by the more inclusive "tautonymous names"; these include trinomial names such as Gorilla gorilla gorilla. In the current rules for botanical nomenclature, tautonyms are explicitly prohibited. One example of a botanical tautonym is 'Larix larix'. The earliest name for the European larch is Pinus larix L. but Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten did not agree with the placement of the species in Pinus and decided to move it to Larix in 1880. His proposed name created a tautonym.

Definition of tautonym in the English dictionary

The definition of tautonym in the dictionary is a taxonomic name in which the generic and specific components are the same, as in Rattus rattus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAUTONYM


acronym
ˈækrənɪm
allonym
ˈælənɪm
anonym
ˈænənɪm
antonym
ˈæntənɪm
cryptonym
ˈkrɪptənɪm
homonym
ˈhɒmənɪm
metonym
ˈmɛtənɪm
paronym
ˈpærənɪm
polyonym
ˈpɒlɪənɪm
retronym
ˈretrənɪm
synonym
ˈsɪnənɪm
toponym
ˈtɒpənɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTONYM

tautologically
tautologies
tautologise
tautologism
tautologist
tautologize
tautologous
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric
tautomerism
tautometric
tautometrical
tautonymic
tautonymous
tautonymy
tautophonic
tautophonical
tautophony

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTONYM

autonym
caconym
cohyponym
eponym
ethnonym
exonym
heteronym
hyponym
meronym
mononym
pseudonym
textonym

Synonyms and antonyms of tautonym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tautonym» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTONYM

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The translations of tautonym from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tautonym» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tautonym
1,325 millions of speakers

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tautonym
570 millions of speakers

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tautonym
510 millions of speakers

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tautonym
380 millions of speakers
ar

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tautonym
280 millions of speakers

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tautonym
278 millions of speakers

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tautonym
270 millions of speakers

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tautonym
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tautonyme
220 millions of speakers

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Takrifan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tautonym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tautonym
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tautonym
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tauton
85 millions of speakers
vi

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tautonym
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tautonym
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टॅटनाव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tautonym
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tautonym
65 millions of speakers

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tautonym
50 millions of speakers

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tautonym
40 millions of speakers

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tautonym
30 millions of speakers
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tautonym
15 millions of speakers
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tautonym
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tautonym
10 millions of speakers
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tautonym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautonym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTONYM»

The term «tautonym» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.643 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTONYM» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTONYM»

Discover the use of tautonym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautonym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tautonym
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In biology, tautonym is an informal term to indicate a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, for example Bison bison.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, ...
CHAPTER. 27. A tautonym, as noted in the last chapter, is a word consisting of two or more identical parts, such as testes. An internal tautonym is a word that has a tautonym within it, such as nonsense. alfalfa assassin assessed barbarous  ...
Rod L. Evans Ph.D., 2012
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Plant Systematics
A tautonym is a binomial in which the genus name and specific epithet are identical in spelling. Tautonyms are not permitted in botanical nomenclature. For example, the name Helianthus helianthus is a tautonym and not validly published , ...
Michael G. Simpson, 2010
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Systematic Botany
Autonym is a legitimate, automatically created tautonym for infrageneric or infraspecific taxa. For example, Hypericum subgenus Hypericum section Hypericum; Sesbania sesban var. sesban. Nomen nudum is a name without description and ...
Bharati Bhattacharyya, 2005
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Articles on Biological Nomenclature, Including: Linnaean ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Motivational maths
Tautonyms. A tautonym is a number where the digits are repeated twice in sequence. For example, 55, 7 272 and 39 73 97 are all tautonyms. Example Working. u♢. Choose any three-digit number. ♢ Turn it into a tautonym (repeat it). ♢ Divide ...
Paul Swan, 2002
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The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think ...
When the names of an animal's genus and its species are the same, that's called a tautonym (from the Creek Iau/0.r“sat1ie“ and anoma “'na1ne”). For example, the bogue fish is Boops [mops and Mops m0p.r is the Malayan freetailed bat.
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, 2011
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An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies
sia: Finnish jarvi, "lake" + Russian ozero, "lake"), Kamenstein (surname: Russian kamen', "stone" 4- German Stein, "stone"), Pendle Hill (England: Celtic penn, "hill" + Old English hyll, "hill" + Modern English hill). tautonym [Gk. tautos, "same" + ...
Adrian Room, 1996
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World Englishes
Table 3.2 Types of lexical variation Type Concept is purely local (localism) Form is only used in this variety Form has another meaning in other varieties (tautonym ) The meaning of this form in other varieties is also available in this variety ...
Gunnel Melchers, Philip Shaw, 2013
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Modern Plant Taxonomy, 1E
Tautonym is the name of a species in which the second term exactly repeats the generic name e.g. Malus malus. This method is accepted in zoological nomenclature, when we find such names as Tardus tardus or Corvus corvus etc.
N S Subrahmanyam, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTONYM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tautonym is used in the context of the following news items.
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Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English (II)
A reader called my attention to the fact that Aso Rock is also a tautonym in the class of Lake Chad and Lagos Lagoon. He said "Aso" is the Gbagyi word for "rock" ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 13»
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Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English (I)
They are pleonastic idiomatic expressions, emphatic reflexive pronouns, legal doublets and triplets, hendiadys, and tautological place names or tautonyms. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 13»

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