different between onomastics vs onomasticon

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

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (onomastikón), neuter form of ??????????? (onomastikós, “belonging to names”), from ??????? (onomáz?, “I name”), from ????? (ónoma, “name”).

The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ?????/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field. This principle of ordering is very old (it was already known in Near Eastern culture in the 2nd millennium BC; Lists) and undoubtedly was the most common one up to the Augustan period. Source: Onomastikon — Brill

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.n???mæs.t?.k?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.no??mæs.t?k?n/, /???.n??mæs.t?k?n/

Noun

onomasticon (plural onomasticons or onomastica)

1. A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.

   We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.

Related terms

• onomastic
• onomastics

Translations

References

• NED VII (O, P; 1st ed., 1909), § 1 (O), page 129/1, “?Onoma·sticon”

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