paronymon

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Latin

Alternative forms

parōnymum

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek πᾰρώνῠμον (parṓnumon).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈroː.ny.mon/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈro.ni.mon/,

Noun

parōnymon n (genitive parōnymī); second declension

(Late Latin) paronym
- 4th C.?, Diomedes (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Ars grammatica in Grammatici Latini I (1857), p. 324, ll. 8–9:
  Paronyma sunt quae ab alio quodam trahuntur et nihil de supra memoratis significant, ut equus eques.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paronymon.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	parōnymon	parōnyma
genitive	parōnymī	parōnymōrum
dative	parōnymō	parōnymīs
accusative	parōnymon	parōnyma
ablative	parōnymō	parōnymīs
vocative	parōnymon	parōnyma

References

“Paronymon” in Ambrosius Calepinus’s Dictionarium Latinum (1502)
Paronymon.nomen ab alio deriuatum.
părōny̆ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,117/2.

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