παρονομασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πᾰρονομᾰ́ζω (paronomázō, “to call with a slight change of name”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.ma.sí.aː/ → /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/ → /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.ma.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.ro.no.maˈsi.a/

Noun

πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (paronomasíā) f (genitive πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (rhetoric) play upon words which sound alike, assonance
2. use of a word first in its proper meaning, then in a derived sense
3. derivative; by-name

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē paronomasíā	τὼ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ paronomasíā	αἱ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́αι hai paronomasíai
Genitive	τῆς πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês paronomasíās	τοῖν πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́αιν toîn paronomasíain	τῶν πᾰρονομᾰσῐῶν tôn paronomasiôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi paronomasíāi	τοῖν πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́αιν toîn paronomasíain	ταῖς πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́αις taîs paronomasíais
Accusative	τὴν πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn paronomasíān	τὼ πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ paronomasíā	τᾱ̀ς πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s paronomasíās
Vocative	πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ paronomasíā	πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́ᾱ paronomasíā	πᾰρονομᾰσῐ́αι paronomasíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: paronomasia

Further reading

• “παρονομασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παρονομασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette