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Etymology
From part + -onym.
Noun
partonym (plural partonyms)
- Synonym of meronym
2001, Salvatore Attardo, “Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis”, in Humorous Texts, Walter de Gruyter, published 2010, →ISBN, page 55:Furthermore, we infer that the kicking was done with one of Mary's feet, since we know that Mary is a human and humans have feet, or, to put it differently, the script MARY inherits the partonyms of its hyperonym HUMAN.
2013, Roy Ellen, “Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures”, in Helaine Selin, editor, Nature Across Cultures, footnote 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 69:A word or lexical item indicating that it is 'part-of' some whole. Thus, "leg" is a body partonym, and "root" a plant partonym. Thus, partonymy refers to the phenomenon of referring to parts of a whole through specialised terms.
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