different between misname vs misnomer

English

Etymology

From mis- +? name.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?m?sne?m/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /m?s?ne?m/

Noun

misname (plural misnames)

1. A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
   • 1994, Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni ...:

     Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences.

   • 2010, Sandra Hill, A Tale of Two Vikings:

     And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways.

Verb

misname (third-person singular simple present misnames, present participle misnaming, simple past and past participle misnamed)

1. (transitive) To call by a wrong name.
2. (transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.

Coordinate terms

• misnomer

Translations

Anagrams

• ammines, mismean

English

Etymology

From Middle English misnoumer, from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, noun use of Anglo-Norman and Old French verb mesnomer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (“mis-”) + nomer (“to name”) (from Latin n?min?re).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?s?n??m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?s?no?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?(r)

Noun

misnomer (plural misnomers)

1. A use of a term that is misleading; a misname.

   Synonym: misname

   • 1994, Illinois. Appellate Court, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate reports (page 257)

2. A term that is misleading.

3. A term whose sense in common usage conflicts with a technical sense.
4. (proscribed, nonstandard) something asserted not to be true; a myth or mistaken belief

Translations

Antonyms

• aptronym

See also

• catachresis

Verb

misnomer (third-person singular simple present misnomers, present participle misnomering, simple past and past participle misnomered)

1. (transitive) To use a misleading term; to misname.

Anagrams

• semi-norm, seminorm