synonymy

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσυνωνυμία
2. Late Latin · borrowed fromsynōnymia
3. French · borrowed fromsynonymie
4. English todaysynonymy

From French synonymie and its etymon Late Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “of like name”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, synonym + -y or syn- + -onymy. Doublet of synonymia.

Words from the same roots