paronym

See also: Paronym

English

Etymology

Coined around 1846 from Ancient Greek παρώνυμος (parṓnumos, “derivative”), equivalent to para- +‎ -onym.

Noun

paronym (plural paronyms)

1. (semantics) A word derived from the same root or stem as another word; classes include cognates and naturalizations of foreign words.

   Synonym: isonym

   Hypernym: derivative

   Hyponym: cognate

2. (rare) A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word (some example pairs are cognate).

Related terms

• parasynonym
• paronymic (adj)
• paronymize
• paronymous (adj)
• paronymy

 

Translations

word derived from the same root/stem — see also cognate,‎ derivative

• Bulgarian: производна дума (proizvodna duma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同源詞／同源词 (zh) (tóngyuáncí)

• Esperanto: paronimo
• German: Paronym (de) n
• Hungarian: azonos eredetű szó
• Ido: paronimo (io)
• Japanese: 同根語 (どうこんご, dōkongo)
• Macedonian: пароним m (paronim)
• Portuguese: parónimo (pt) m
• Russian: когна́т (ru) m (kognát) (formally), родственное сло́во n (rodstvennoje slóvo)
• Spanish: parónimo (es) m

word that sounds like another word

• Catalan: parònim (ca) m
• Dutch: paroniem (nl) n
• Esperanto: paronimo
• Finnish: kaltaissana, paronyymi (fi)
• French: paronyme (fr) m
• Galician: parónimo m
• German: Paronym (de) n, Homöophon n
• Greek: παρώνυμο (el) n (parónymo)
• Hungarian: paronima, hasonló alakú szó
• Ido: paronimo (io)
• Interlingua: paronyme
• Japanese: 類音語 (るいおんご, ruiongo)
• Macedonian: пароним m (paronim)
• Polish: paronim (pl) m
• Portuguese: parónimo (pt) m
• Romanian: paronim (ro)
• Russian: паро́ним (ru) m (parónim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паро̀ним m

  Roman: parònim (sh) m

• Slovene: blizuzvočnica f, paronim m
• Spanish: parónimo (es) m