polynymy

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ -nymy.

Noun

polynymy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of polyonymy
   • 1978, Mohammad A. Jazayery, General and Theoretical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 289:

     Synchronically, we are dealing here with the simultaneous multilingual interplay of polynymy (involving several similar forms) and polysemy (involving several connected meanings).

   • 2007, Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on Ambiguity, →ISBN, page 475:

     Curiously, in the course of speculating on the details of the connection, Kidd associates the 'quam multa?' group with ambiguity, yet seems to identify them with cases of polynymy.

   • 2009, Sean M. McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine, →ISBN:

     The polynymy of the Stoic god was not an isolated phenomenon.

2. The use of names that are polynyms.
   • 1889, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 36, page 578:

     Such, at least, is the opinion of Dr. A. D. Macdonald (Medical Press and Circular), and he is certainly to be congratulated for giving us so rhythmical an addition to polynymy, as well as in attaching an actual anatomical disorder to a purely physiological centre.

   • 1966, Centrul de Informare și Documentare în Științele Sociale și Politice, Romanian Scientific Abstracts - Volume 3, page 727:

     Thus, in the sphere of form the correlation mononymy-polynymy applies to the structural unity of the word being not extended to the whole.

   • 1983, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi – Volumes 2-4, page 77:

     On the basis of the evidence that has been presented thus far, we can observe that the polynymy found amongst the Hephthalites is typical of other nomadic...