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单词 polyonymy
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polyonymyn.

Brit. /ˌpɒlɪˈɒnᵻmi/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈɑnəmi/
Forms: 1600s– polyonymy, 1700s– polyonomy.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πολυωνυμία.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πολυωνυμία a multitude of names < πολυώνυμος (see polyonymous adj.) + -ία -y suffix3; compare -onymy comb. form. Compare polyonymous adj.In form polyonomy probably after ancient Greek ὄνομα (see onomato- comb. form).
1. The use of several different names for the same person or thing; variety of names or titles.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > [noun] > use or availability of different names
polyonymy1678
poecilonymy1889
polyonymosity1923
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **2 The Many Pagan, Poetical and Political Gods,..prove them Really to have been, but the Polyonymy of one God.
1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. ix. 159/1 There is a certain Polytheism of theirs, which is nothing more than the Polyonymy of this one Supreme God.
1747 H. Knight Being & Attrib. God ix. 53 Their Polytheism was partly a Polyonomy of the one God.
1803 G. S. Faber Diss. Myst. Cabiri I. 177 Remarks on the polyonymy of the solar Noah.
1895 Q. Rev. Jan. 227 The Normans..had..a system of polyonomy which led to much confusion.
1962 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 52 89 Polyonymy had been spreading from the upper order to knights and even to soldiers.
1998 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 98 70 In the noun-epithet formulae of gods economy is limited by polyonymy.
2. Taxonomy. A polynomial system of nomenclature. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Polyonymy, same as polynomialism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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