different between hyponym vs meronym

English

Etymology

From hypo- (“under”) +? -onym (“name; word”); from Ancient Greek ??? (hupó, “under”) + ????? (ónuma), Doric dialectal form of ????? (ónoma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?p??.n?m/, /?ha?p?.n?m/
  • Homophone: hypernym
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?ha?.po?.n?m/, /?ha?p?.n?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

hyponym (plural hyponyms)

1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.

   Antonyms: hypernym, hyperonym

   Coordinate term: meronym

Derived terms

• hyponymic
• hyponymous
• hyponymy
• cohyponym
• cohyponymous

Translations

See also

• hyponym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs.

Danish

Adjective

hyponym

1. hyponymous

Inflection

Noun

hyponym n (singular definite hyponymet, plural indefinite hyponymer)

1. hyponym

   Synonym: underbegreb

Declension

Swedish

Noun

hyponym c

1. hyponym

Declension

English

Etymology

From mero- +? -onym, from Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “part”) + ????? (ónuma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???n?m/

Noun

meronym (plural meronyms)

1. (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

   Synonym: partonym

   Antonym: holonym

   • 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database,^[1] MIT Press, ?ISBN, page 38,

     If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

Holonyms

• semantic network
• thesaurus

Coordinate terms

• hypernym
• hyponym

Derived terms

• comeronym
• meronymic
• meronymy
• meronymous

Translations

See also

• synecdoche

Swedish

Noun

meronym c

1. (semantics) meronym

Declension