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onomastics

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪks/Part of speech nounSorted acimnoosstStarts with OEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names

Word origin

1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name).

Used in a sentence

  • Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children.
  • From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.).

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