different between meronym vs pertainym

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

English

Etymology

pertain +? -nym

Noun

pertainym (plural pertainyms)

1. (computational linguistics) a word, usually an adjective, which can be defined as "of or pertaining to" another word.

Derived terms

• pertainymy

See also

• holonym
• meronym
• troponym

Further reading

• pertainymns (AMR annotation guidance)