THE LOGOPHILE LEXICON
PART II: DEFINITION AND MEANING
IN THIS SECTION
2.1: Definition and Meaning
2.2a: Parts of Speech
2.2b: Types of Words
2.3a: Translating the Untranslatable
2.3b: Translating Creativity and Words
2.4: Naming Conventions
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2.1: Definition and Meaning
2.2a: Parts of Speech
2.2b: Types of Words
2.3a: Translating the Untranslatable
2.3b: Translating Creativity and Words
2.4: Naming Conventions
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Part 2.4: Naming Conventions
APTRONYM - a name aptly suited to its owner, often because the name applies in more than one sense.
COGNOMEN - a name, more specifically a nickname
CRYPTONYM - private or secret name
DEMONYMS - names used for the people who live in a particular country, state, or other locality. Formal demonyms for the above are New Zealander, Connecticuter and Nebraskan, respectively.
DOMUNYM - literally ‘home name,’ used to identify people from particular places (Philadelphians; Annapolitans).
EPONYMS - words derived from a person's name.
EXONYM - place name used by foreigners that differs from the name used by natives. For example, Londres is the French exonym for London; Germany is an exonym because Germans call it Deutschland.
HYPOCORISM - use of pet names, diminutives, baby talk, or terms of endearment. "Comfy" instead of "comfortable."
NOA WORD - a word free of any taboo in the languages under consideration, usually signifying that it may be employed without reservation in the creation of an international commercial name.
ONOMASTIC - of, relating to, or explaining one or more names.
SHIBBOLETH - a word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another.
TAUTONYM - a scientific name in which the genus and species names are the same. For example, gorilla gorilla.
THEOPHOROUS - having the name of a god; derived from the name of a deity
TOPONYM - the name of a place
TRIONYM - name consisting of three words
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