homonymous

English

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Latin homōnymus (“having the same name”) +‎ -ous, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμος (homṓnumos). By surface analysis, homonym +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

homonymous (not comparable)

1. Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).
2. Of or pertaining to a homonym.
3. (ophthalmology) Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)

Antonyms

• heteronymous

Related terms

• homonymic
• homonymy

Translations

having the same name

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܒܪ ܫܡܐ (bar shma)

• Catalan: homònim (ca)
• Dutch: gelijknamig (nl)
• Esperanto: samnoma
• Finnish: homonyyminen
• French: homonyme (fr)
• Georgian: ომონიმური (omonimuri), თანამოსახელე (tanamosaxele), ერთნაირი სახელის მქონე (ertnairi saxelis mkone)
• German: gleichnamig (de), homonym
• Hungarian: homonim (hu), azonos alakú
• Icelandic: samnefndur
• Italian: omonimo (it)
• Latin: homonymus (la)
• Manx: co-ennymagh
• Portuguese: homónimo (pt)
• Russian: одноимённый (ru) (odnoimjónnyj), однофами́льный (odnofamílʹnyj) (having the same surname)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исто̀имен

  Roman: istòimen (sh)

• Spanish: homónimo (es)
• Tagalog: magkalagyo, kalagyo
• Turkish: eş sesli (tr), sesteş (tr)

pertaining to a homonym

• Catalan: homònim (ca)
• French: homonyme (fr)
• German: homonymisch
• Italian: omonimo (it)
• Manx: co-ennymagh
• Portuguese: homónimo (pt)
• Russian: омоними́ческий (ru) (omonimíčeskij), омоними́чный (ru) (omonimíčnyj)
• Spanish: homónimo (es)

See also

• polysemic