antonomasia

Borrowed from Latin antonomasia, Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæntənəʊˈmeɪzɪə/, /ænˌtɒnəʊˈmeɪzɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæntənəˈmeɪʒə/

antonomasia (countable and uncountable, plural antonomasias)

1. (rhetoric) The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 70:

     Antonomasia proper names imparts
     From kindred, country, epithets, and arts.]

2. (rhetoric) Use of a proper name to suggest its most obvious quality or aspect.

• autonomasia

• antonomasia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin antonomasia, from Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).

• IPA^(key): /an.to.noˈma.zja/
• Rhymes: -azja
• Hyphenation: an‧to‧no‧mà‧sia

antonomasia f (plural antonomasie)

1. (rhetoric) antonomasia

From Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.to.noˈma.si.a/, [än̪t̪ɔnɔˈmäs̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.to.noˈma.si.a/, [än̪t̪onoˈmäːs̬iä]

antonomasia f (genitive antonomasiae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) antonomasia

First-declension noun.

• English: antonomasia
• French: antonomase
• Italian: antonomasia
• Spanish: antonomasia

• “antonomasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antonomasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin antonomasia, Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).

• IPA^(key): /antonoˈmasja/ [ãn̪.t̪o.noˈma.sja]
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: an‧to‧no‧ma‧sia

antonomasia f (plural antonomasias)

1. (rhetoric) antonomasia

• “antonomasia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014