Meanings
plural onomasiologists
- A practitioner of onomasiology
Historical onomasiology, interested in the sets of designations available for a given concept throughout time, must take both types of motives into account. The enlargement as well as the reduction of a set of possible designations for a concept are interesting for the onomasiologist.
2002, Joachim Grzega, “Some aspects of modern diachronic onomasiology”, in Linguistics, volume 40, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1031
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
- Proto-Hellenic*ónomə
- Ancient Greekὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
- Ancient Greekὀνομάζω (onomázō)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Englishonomasiology
- Englishonomasiologist
From onomasiology + -ist.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish onomasiologi
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Italian onomasiologo
- onomasiologoTranslations
Cite this entry
onomasiologist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onomasiologist
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