单词 | polyonymous |
释义 | polyonymous, a.|pɒlɪˈɒnɪməs| Also 9 erron. -onomous. [f. Gr. πολυώνυµος having many names (f. πολυ-, poly- + ὄνοµα, æol. ὄνυµα name) + -ous: cf. anonymous.] Having many names or titles; called or known by several different names.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 477 The supreme God amongst the Pagans was polyonymous, and worshipped under several personal names. 1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 97 That polyonymous officer aforesaid. a1843Southey Doctor ccix. (1848) 565/2 The polyonomous Arabian philosopher Zechariah Ben Mohammed Ben Mahmud Al Camuni Al Cazvini. 1890E. Johnson Rise Christendom 469 Their mysterious and polyonymous ancestry. b. Applied to the various names given to the same thing. (Usually synonymous.) rare—1. ‘συνώνυµα were called πολυώνυµα by the Peripatetics’ (Liddell & Scott s.v. πολυώνυµος).
1856Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xvi. 52 The large proportion of..polyonymous terms by which every ancient language is characterized. |

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