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onomastics::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | lexicology |
| Derivation | onomastic |
Examples of onomastics
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Even onomastics works better than profiling, and, by the looks of it, than TSA.
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I also have a developing interest in heraldry, onomastics and prosopography.
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The grouping of Liburnian with Venetic is based on a part of the Liburnian onomastics.
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Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds.
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The theory is based on classical sources, archaeology and onomastics.
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Onomastics is the study of proper names including family names.
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Online, the onomastics are already in high gear.
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Onomastics evidence indicates that it seems to have occurred sometimes in the latter half of the eighth century.
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Onomastics shows that the list comes from Auvergne and not from Provence as has been thought from the location of the object in the modern era.
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- The branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names
- (onomastic) of or related to onomastics; "he published a collection of his onomastic essays"
- Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names. Onomastics originates from the Greek u1F40u03BDu03BFu03BCu03B1u03C3u03C4u03B9u03BAu03CCu03C2 (onomastiku00F3s), which translates to "of or belonging to naming", from u1F44u03BDu03BFu03BCu03B1 (u00F3noma) meaning "name". Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names...
- (ONOMASTIC) Related to names. For instance, a character's name might contain an onomastic symbol--if that character is named Faith (as in "Young Goodman Brown") or Lucy Westenra (which means "the light of the west") in Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Pandarus (which means "all-giving" and puns on " ...
- (onomastic) of, relating to, or explaining one or more names.
- The science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places
- Science of studying names
