paronymon

Latin

Alternative forms

• parōnymum

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek πᾰρώνῠμον (parṓnumon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈroː.ny.mon/, [päˈroːnʏmɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈro.ni.mon/, [päˈrɔːnimon]

Noun

parōnymon n (genitive parōnymī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) paronym
   • 4th C.?, Diomedes (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Ars grammatica in Grammatici Latini I (1857), p. 324, ll. 8–9:

     Paronyma sunt quae ab alio quodam trahuntur et nihil de supra memoratis significant, ut equus eques.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paronymon.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	parōnymon	parōnyma
genitive	parōnymī	parōnymōrum
dative	parōnymō	parōnymīs
accusative	parōnymon	parōnyma
ablative	parōnymō	parōnymīs
vocative	parōnymon	parōnyma

References

• “Paronymon” in Ambrosius Calepinus’s Dictionarium Latinum (1502)

  Paronymon.nomen ab alio deriuatum.

• părōny̆ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,117/2.