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homonym|ˈhɒmənɪm|
Also homonyme.
[ad. late L. homōnym-um (Quintilian), a. Gr. ὁµώνυµ-ον, neut. of ὁµώνυµος homonymous. Cf. F. homonyme ‘an equiuocation, or word of diuers significations’ (Cotgr.).]
1. a. The same name or word used to denote different things. b. Philol. Applied to words having the same sound, but differing in meaning: opp. to heteronym and synonym.
1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic i. xxv. 100 Those [words] that differ not in termination; as grammatica, the art of grammar, and grammatica, a woman, are not conjugates, but homonyms. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 350 During the later periods of the Empire there are so many homonyms as to confuse the most attentive investigator. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. §17. 34 A monosyllabic language, indeed, like the Chinese, is but, as it were, a cluster of homonyms.
c. Taxonomy. A generic name or a binomial that duplicates a name attached to a different plant or animal.
1892Bull. Torrey Bot. Club XIX. 290 Homonyms.—The publication of a generic name or a binomial invalidates the use of the same name for any subsequently published genus or species respectively. 1920Jrnl. Bot. LIX. 156 Specific names should be rejected when they are homonyms. 1951G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants ix. 213 A name of a taxon is illegitimate and must be rejected if it is a later homonym, that is, if it duplicates a name previously and validly published for a taxon of the same rank based on a different type. 1967R. E. Blackwelder Taxonomy xxii. 463 Priority determines which homonym can be retained as an acceptable name. 1972W. T. Stearn A. W. Smith's Gardener's Dict. Plant Names (rev. ed.) 13 Similar names applied to different plants are called homonyms. The rejection of later homonyms has caused a number of unavoidable but regrettable name changes.
2. A person or thing having the same name as another; a ‘namesake’.
1851F. Hall in Benares Mag. V. 27 It is to this Mushtáq that Mannú Lála..alludes, and not to his titular homonym of Azímábád, as our author imagines. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 118 He bestowed the Duchy upon his Father's homonym Robert the Younger. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia II. 138 The locust of Arabia is..twice or three times the size of its northern homonym.
Hence † hoˈmonymal a., agreeing in name.
1641H. L'Estrange God's Sabbath 102 For Island..their dayes are homonymall with ours in England..as derived from the same idoles. |