Word Origin Summary

Ἀντονομασία is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• antonomazija

  HBS · derived from

• antonomasia

  Latin · borrowed from

• antonomasia

  English · derived from

• antonomastic

  English · derived from

• antonomasia

  Spanish · derived from

• antonomasia

  Italian · derived from

• antonomasie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• antonomásia

  Portuguese · derived from

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