单词 | onomatology |
释义 | onomatologyn. The science or study of the formation of names or terms. Also: the history of names or naming practices. Occasionally as a mass noun: a discussion of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > study of names and naming > [noun] onomatology1845 onomastics1904 onomastic1918 onomasiology1921 1845 G. Bush Anastasis iii. 94 Onomatology; definition of terms. 1869 Galaxy Sept. 420 Where did the man [sc. Dickens] get all his names? Did he select them from the very full and rich vocabulary of English onomatology..or did he evolve them..from his ‘from his inner consciousness’? 1884 Science 20 June 760/1 A bibliographic history of local onomatology. 1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse 324 He therefore endeavoured to bring back the discussion from the onomatologies into which it had strayed. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 747/2 ‘Onomatology’, the ugly name which Mr. Ewen gives to this kind of research, is not an exact science. 1994 Slavic Rev. 53 1047 Transcending the disciplinary confines of onomatology, a study of surname changes in late imperial Russia shows how some people..maintained or re-established their bearings amidst..war and revolution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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