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A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
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a list of proper nouns naming persons or places
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wordbook
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *ónomã Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκόν (onomăstĭkón) English onomasticon From Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικόν (onomastikón), neuter form of ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós, “belonging to names”), from ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ὄνομα/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field. This principle of ordering is very old (it was already known in Near Eastern culture in the 2nd millennium BC; Lists) and undoubtedly was the most common one up to the Augustan period. Source: Onomastikon — Brill
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
onomàsticon
— lexicon of personal names
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Czech:
onomastikon
— lexicon of personal names
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Macedonian:
ономастикон
(onomastikon)
— lexicon of personal names
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Polish:
onomastykon
— lexicon of personal names
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Slovak:
onomastikon
— lexicon of personal names
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Slovene:
onomástikon
— lexicon of personal names