hodonymy

English

Etymology

From hodo- +‎ -onymy or hodonym +‎ -y.

Noun

hodonymy (uncountable)

  1. The naming of streets and roads.
    • 1976, Raymond Chevallier, Roman roads, page 239:
      The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).
    • 1995, Onoma - Volume 32, page 9:
      Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.
    • 1996, Ernst Eichler, Name Studies, →ISBN, page 1482:
      The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.
    • 2021 November 30, Anastasia Romanova, “Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova”, in Urbana‎[1], page 134:
      The second period of street-naming in the history of Moldova is connected with the Soviet period. In 1940, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Bessarabia became part of the Soviet Union. Sovietization also affects hodonymy.
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