paronomasia

From Latin paronomasia, from Ancient Greek παρονομασία (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”), from παρα- (para-) + ὀνομασία (onomasía, “naming”).

• IPA^(key): /pæɹənɵˈmeɪzɪə/, /pæɹənɵˈmeɪʒə/

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paronomasia (countable and uncountable, plural paronomasias)

1. (rhetoric) A pun or play on words.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’ Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is ‘No-Fuck’.

2. (rhetoric) The use of puns.
   • Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 88:

     Paronomasia to the sense alludes,
     When words but little varied it includes.]

   • 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:

     […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.

• paronomasiac
• paronomasic
• paronomastic

• Silva Rhetoricae

From Latin paronomasia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑronoˌmɑsiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑsiɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧rono‧masia

paronomasia

1. paronomasia

From Latin paronomasia.

paronomasia f (plural paronomasie)

1. paronomasia

• paronomastico

• paronomasia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Ancient Greek παρονομασία (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/,

paronomasia f (genitive paronomasiae); first declension

1. A figure of speech; pun or play on words which sound alike but have different meanings, paronomasia.

First-declension noun.

• (paronomasia): agnōminātiō

• Catalan: paronomàsia
• French: paronomase
• English: paronomasia
• Italian: paronomasia
• Portuguese: paronomásia
• Spanish: paronomasia

• “paronomasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paronomasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paronomasia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ryan Stark, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 190-95.

• IPA^(key): /paɾonoˈmasja/
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: pa‧ro‧no‧ma‧sia

paronomasia f (plural paronomasias)

1. paronomasia

• “paronomasia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10