misnomer

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• Received-Pronunciation: /(ˌ)mɪsˈnəʊmə/
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• General-American: /ˌmɪsˈnoʊməɹ/
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• rhymes with -əʊmə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH0 S N OW1 M ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). The verb is derived from the noun.

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 誤稱 /误称 (wùchēng) — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Dutch: verkeerde naam — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: Falschbezeichnung — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: Fehlbenennung — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: Fehlbezeichnung — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: irreführende Bezeichnung — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: Namensirrtum — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• German: unpassende Bezeichnung — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Greek: ακυριολεξία (akyriolexía) — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Hungarian: névcsere — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Hungarian: névhiba — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Hungarian: névtévesztés — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Hungarian: tévedés — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Icelandic: rangnefni — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Italian: denominazione impropria — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Japanese: 誤称 (goshō) — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Korean: 오칭 (oching) — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Spanish: mala designación/denominación — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Spanish: mal descriptor — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Turkish: uygunsuz adlandırma — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading
• Turkish: yanlış adlandırma — incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading