different between namesake vs homonym

English

Etymology

name +? sake. From the phrase "(one's) name's sake"; first recorded in the mid-seventeenth century.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?m?s?k, IPA^(key): /?ne?mse?k/

Noun

namesake (plural namesakes)

1. (originally) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.

   Synonym: eponym
2. (by extension) A ship or a building that is named after someone or something.
3. A person with the same name as another.

Translations

Verb

namesake (third-person singular simple present namesakes, present participle namesaking, simple past and past participle namesaked)

1. (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.

English

Etymology

homo- +? -onym

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?m.??n?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m.??n?m/

Noun

homonym (plural homonyms)

1. (semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
2. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
3. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Usage notes

• Homonyms (in the broader sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
  • die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
  • the parasitic flatworm called the fluke, the fish called the fluke, and a fluke, part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
  • the metal lead and the present tense of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)

Derived terms

• homonymic
• homonymous

Translations

See also

Further reading

• homonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• homonym (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

homonym (neuter homonymt, plural and definite singular attributive homonyme)

1. homonymic

Noun

homonym

1. homonym

Declension

Swedish

Noun

homonym c

1. homonym

Declension