μετωνυμία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μετώνυμος (metṓnumos) (from μετα- (meta-) + ὄνομα (ónoma)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.tɔː.ny.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.to.nyˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.to.niˈmi.a/
Noun
μετωνῠμίᾱ • (metōnŭmíā) f (genitive μετωνῠμίᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μετωνῠμίᾱ hē metōnŭmíā |
τὼ μετωνῠμίᾱ tṑ metōnŭmíā |
αἱ μετωνῠμίαι hai metōnŭmíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μετωνῠμίᾱς tês metōnŭmíās |
τοῖν μετωνῠμίαιν toîn metōnŭmíain |
τῶν μετωνῠμιῶν tôn metōnŭmiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μετωνῠμίᾳ tēî metōnŭmíāi |
τοῖν μετωνῠμίαιν toîn metōnŭmíain |
ταῖς μετωνῠμίαις taîs metōnŭmíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μετωνῠμίᾱν tḕn metōnŭmíān |
τὼ μετωνῠμίᾱ tṑ metōnŭmíā |
τᾱ̀ς μετωνῠμίᾱς tā̀s metōnŭmíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μετωνῠμίᾱ metōnŭmíā |
μετωνῠμίᾱ metōnŭmíā |
μετωνῠμίαι metōnŭmíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μετωνυμικός (metōnumikós)
- → English: metonymic
Descendants
Descendants
- → Greek: μετωνυμία (metonymía) (learned)
- → Late Latin: metōnymia
- → Czech: metonymie
- → Danish: metonymi
- → Dutch: metonymia
- → English: metonymy
- → Finnish: metonymia
- → French: métonymie
- → German: Metonymie
- → Irish: meatonaime
- → Italian: metonimia (learned)
- → Polish: metonimia
- → Portuguese: metonímia (learned)
- → Serbo-Croatian: metonìmija
- → Spanish: metonimia (learned)
- → Macedonian: метонимија (metonimija)
- → Russian: метони́мия (metonímija)
- → Welsh: trawsenw (calque)
Further reading
- μετωνυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μετωνυμία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μετωνυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press