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- Ancient Greek · borrowed from*πολυωνυμία
- French · borrowed frompolyonymie
- English todaypolyonymy
From French polyonymie and its etymon Ancient Greek *πολυωνυμία (*poluōnumía) (only attested as Ionic Greek πολυωνυμίη (poluōnumíē)), from πολυώνυμος (poluṓnumos, “polyonymous”, adjective) + -ία (-ía). By surface analysis, poly- + -onymy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.