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Definition of Onomastics

1. Noun. The branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names.

Definition of Onomastics

1. Noun. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names. ¹

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Definition of Onomastics

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Onomastics

Literary usage of Onomastics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1907)
"And inasmuch as the rule in Hebrew Old Testament onomastics is that a Person bear and be named by only one name, therefore this double or counterpart must ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"Aborigines and, Intruders. XX. PHE-CHINESE PROPER NAMES. " 180. Researches in onomastics, as a help to modern ethnology, are generally dangerous, and, ..."

3. Kos Between Hellenism and Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional, and by Kostas Buraselis (2000)
"... and especially Koan, onomastics (cf. Xenophon's own name). What is certain is that we have here for the first time a mention of a paternal ancestor or ..."

4. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"We are as yet so imperfectly acquainted with the onomastics of the nations surrounding the Semites that it is hazardous to attempt to locate these people. ..."

5. Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean by Marion F. Egge (2000)
"... representing the medieval Catholic saint name tradition in onomastics. Very few of these latter continued in Pennsylvania. One conspicuous exception is ..."

6. Sketch of the Present State of the Island of Sardinia by William Henry Smyth (1828)
"... and " Plaustrum" of the Romans, grounding his argument on a passage of Julius Pollux in chapter xiv. of the first book of onomastics, and another in ..."

7. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"... to mother" or "belonging to father"), and in some cases the form of the word ati may relate to onomastics rather than to deity. Mengarelli (1937, p. ..."

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