different between metronym vs meronym

English

Alternative forms

• matronym

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (m?t?r, “mother”) + ????? (ónuma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t???n?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?t?o?n?m/

Noun

metronym (plural metronyms)

1. The name of someone's mother.
2. A matronymic surname.

Related terms

• metronymic

See also

• patronym
• -onym

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