different between lexicology vs onomastics

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (lexikós, “of words”), from ????? (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from ?????? (légein, “to speak”); synchronically, lexico- +? -logy.

Noun

lexicology (countable and uncountable, plural lexicologies)

1. (uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
   • 1949 Journal of Theological Studies

     The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.

2. (countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.

Derived terms

• lexicological
• lexicologically
• lexicologist

Related terms

• lexical
• lexicography
• lexicon

Translations

See also

• semantics

English

Etymology

1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (onomastikós), from ????????? (onomastós, “named”), form of ??????? (onomáz?, “I name”), from ????? (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn? (“name”) (whence English name).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.n???mæs.t?ks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.no??mæs.t?ks/, /???.n??mæs.t?ks/

Noun

onomastics pl (plural only)

1. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.

Synonyms

• onomatology

Hypernyms

• lexicology
• etymology (in sense of “origins”)

Hyponyms

• anthroponymy
• toponymy

Derived terms

Related terms

• onomastic
• onomastically
• onomastician
• onomasticon

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