onomastics

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Etymology

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).

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Noun

onomastics pl (plural only)

  1. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
    Synonym: onomatology
    Hypernyms: lexicology, (in sense of “origins”) etymology
    Hyponyms: anthroponymy, toponymy
    • 2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 65:
      Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children.
    • (Can we date this quote?), David Vaculík, “Parts of the city of Ostrava – The past and current state of urbanonymy”, in Masaryk University Brno‎, page 405:
      From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.).

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “onomastics”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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