different between naming vs onomastics

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?m??/
• Rhymes: -e?m??

Noun

naming (plural namings)

1. The process of giving names to things.
2. A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.

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Verb

naming

1. present participle of name

Adjective

naming (not comparable)

1. Giving a name to a person or thing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Anagrams

• Mangin, Minang

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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