different between paronomasiac vs paronomasia

English

Noun

paronomasiac (plural paronomasiacs)

1. One addicted to word play or puns.
   • 2004, Spider Robinson, Off The Wall At Callahan's, Macmillan, page 9,

     Punning, and competition therein, was encouraged—nay, actively abetted—by Callahan, himself a hopeless and utterly shameless paronomasiac.

Related terms

• paronomasia
• paronomasic
• paronomastic

English

Etymology

From Latin paronomasia, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”), from ????- (para-) + ???????? (onomasía, “naming”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæ??n??me?z??/, /pæ??n??me???/

Noun

paronomasia (countable and uncountable, plural paronomasias)

1. (rhetoric) A pun or play on words.
   • 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:

     […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’ Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is ‘No-Fuck’.

Related terms

• paronomasiac
• paronomasic
• paronomastic

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Italian

Etymology

From Latin paronomasia.

Noun

paronomasia f (plural paronomasie)

1. paronomasia

Related terms

• paronomastico

Further reading

• paronomasia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no?ma.si.a/, [pä??n??mäs?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no?ma.si.a/, [p???n??m??s?i?]

Noun

paronomasia f (genitive paronomasiae); first declension

1. A figure of speech; pun or play on words which sound alike but have different meanings, paronomasia.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (paronomasia): agn?min?ti?

Descendants

• Catalan: paronomàsia
• French: paronomase
• English: paronomasia
• Italian: paronomasia
• Portuguese: paronomásia
• Spanish: paronomasia

References

• paronomasia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paronomasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• paronomasia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ryan Stark, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 190-95.