hodonymy

English

Etymology

From hodo- +‎ -onymy.

Noun

hodonymy (uncountable)

1. The naming of streets and roads.
   • 1976, Raymond Chevallier, Roman roads, page 239:

     The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).

   • 1995, Onoma - Volume 32, page 9:

     Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.

   • 1996, Ernst Eichler, Name Studies, →ISBN, page 1482:

     The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.