单词 | paronym |
释义 | paronymn. 1. A word which is derived from another word, or from a word with the same root, and having a related or similar meaning (e.g. childhood and childish); a derivative or cognate word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > state of being derived from same word > word which conjugatea1586 paronym1846 cognate1865 1846 B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 2) Paronyme, a paronymous word. 1857 H. Coppée Elem. Logic 191 So presume (in its two senses), presumption, presumptive, presumptuous, &c., are paronyms growing from the root presumo. 1890 Classical Rev. 4 376 The words Anschauung, Vorstellung and their paronyms present the chief difficulties. 1946 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 77 99 Palladas' epigram..on the gambling poet..illustrates paronyms formed by both clipping and addition. 1991 E. Dechant Understanding & teaching Reading x. 361 Paronyms are words with the same root: wise, wisdom. 2. A word from one language which translates into another with only minor changes in form, or with no change at all; a word formed by adaptation of a foreign word. Opposed to heteronym. ΚΠ 1855 J. H. Thornwell Discourses on Truth 191 The etymology of the word [sc. ‘promise’] has, perhaps, contributed to the currency of this meaning. It is a paronym of promittere—to send ahead, as if the prominent idea were the projection of the mind of another into the future. 1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 902 All the names on the figures are Latin, but the English paronyms are used in the text. 1950 Hispania 33 285 The types of Anglicisms, which include, among others, transliterations, translations, paronyms and straight borrowings. 1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 163/2 Paronym, a word having the same form as a cognate word in another language, e.g. English and German winter. 3. a. A word similar in sound or appearance to another; esp. a near homonym. ΚΠ 1867 J. M. Bonnell Man. Art Prose Composition 39 (heading) Paronyms to be discriminated. Tangent—tangible. Temporal—temporary. Ostensible—ostentatious. 1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iii. 172 The two terms associated are..not strictly homonyms but paronyms, i.e. have merely a certain formal resemblance. 1956 French Rev. 30 35 Numerous paronyms do not especially promote clarity, as would be indicated by a series like sain, sein, saint, ceint, sceing, and cinq. 1996 Moscow News (Nexis) 31 Oct. 43 Care should be take to distinguish between two words that are alike both in sound and meaning, like ‘continually’ and ‘continuously’ (such words are called paronyms). b. A play on words that are similar in appearance or sound; = paronomasia n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun allusion1550 nick1561 paronomasia1577 paronomasy1592 quiblin1605 quibblea1627 quiblet1627 clinch1629 quibbling1633 clink1634 clench1638 pun1644 conundrum1645 whim1652 pundigrion1673 jeu de mots1823 calembour1830 Tom Swifty1963 paronym1982 1982 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 45 586 The apparent preference of Ibn al-Khaṭib for that surface artifice in poetry—the startling quips, metonyms, paronyms and antitheses—formalized into a science of stylistic excellence. 1995 Philos. Perspectives 9 9 That is only a rhetorical difference, barring my slight paronym above. 2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Aug. 25 Strictly speaking, ‘Hempel of Doom’ is not a pun but a paronym—a punning allusion, or ‘near-miss’. 4. Philosophy. Esp. in Aristotelian philosophy (with reference to Aristotle Categories 1. 1a12–15): something predicated on accidental qualities of a substance rather than on the substance itself; a derivative quality. ΚΠ 1918 Classical Philol. 13 96 The one word is in the Aristotelian terminology a ‘paronym’ of the other so that you may argue from the meaning of the one to that of the other. 1963 Mind 72 120 The ancient use which authorises ‘paronym’..as a term applicable to names imposed on account of the possession of the quality named by the abstract noun corresponding to the name, as when a man is called ‘brave’ because of his bravery. 1996 S. Blackburn Oxf. Dict. Philos. 278 ‘Colour’ and ‘justice’ signify qualities, but ‘coloured’ and ‘just’ describe things by means of these qualities, and are therefore paronyms, indicating substances derivatively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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