The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμετωνυμικός“of or like metonymy”
- English todaymetonymic
From Ancient Greek μετωνυμικός (metōnumikós, “of or like metonymy”), from μετωνυμία (metōnumía, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). By surface analysis, metonym + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.