paronym

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Etymology

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

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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

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

Related terms

• parasynonym
• paronymic (adjective)
• paronymize
• paronymous (adjective)
• 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), пароним (ru) (paronim) 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