different between topography vs toponymy

English

Etymology

First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (topographía), from ????? (tópos, “place”) + ????? (gráph?, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• Hyphenation: top?og?raphy
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

topography (countable and uncountable, plural topographies)

1. A precise description of a place.
2. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
3. The features themselves; terrain.
4. The surveying of the features.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• topology
• toponym
• toponymic

Anagrams

• optography

English

Etymology

From topo- +? -onymy.

Noun

toponymy (countable and uncountable, plural toponymies)

1. (semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.

   Synonym: toponomastics

   Hypernym: onomastics

   Coordinate term: anthroponymy

2. (anatomy) The nomenclature of anatomical regions.

Derived terms

• microtoponymy
• neotoponymy
• toponym
• toponymic
• toponymist

Translations

Anagrams

• monotypy