Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of polyonymy.
The polynymy of the Stoic god was not an isolated phenomenon.
2009, Sean M. McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine, →ISBN2 more examples
Synchronically, we are dealing here with the simultaneous multilingual interplay of polynymy (involving several similar forms) and polysemy (involving several connected meanings).
1978, Mohammad A. Jazayery, General and Theoretical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 289Curiously, in the course of speculating on the details of the connection, Kidd associates the 'quam multa?' group with ambiguity, yet seems to identify them with cases of polynymy.
2007, Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on Ambiguity, →ISBN, page 475 - uncountableThe use of names that are polynyms.
Thus, in the sphere of form the correlation mononymy-polynymy applies to the structural unity of the word being not extended to the whole.
1966, Centrul de Informare și Documentare în Științele Sociale și Politice, Romanian Scientific Abstracts - Volume 3, page 7272 more examples
Such, at least, is the opinion of Dr. A. D. Macdonald (Medical Press and Circular), and he is certainly to be congratulated for giving us so rhythmical an addition to polynymy, as well as in attaching an actual anatomical disorder to a purely physiological centre.
1889, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 36, page 578On the basis of the evidence that has been presented thus far, we can observe that the polynymy found amongst the Hephthalites is typical of other nomadic...
1983, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi – Volumes 2-4, page 77
Origin
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