autohyponym

English

Examples
drink (“consume any potable liquid”) or drink (“consume alcoholic beverage”) More: see Category:English autohyponyms

Etymology

From auto- +‎ hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym.

Noun

autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)

1. A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

   Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term

   Coordinate term: autohypernym

Related terms

• autohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy
• cohyponym (sharing a hypernym)
• comeronym (sharing a holonym)

See also

• strictly speaking
• stricto sensu