Noun: hodonym
| Singular | hodonym |
| Plural | hodonyms |
Sample Sentences
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Our study researches the role that hodonyms play in forming cultural and collective identity and awareness in the city of Chisinau (Kishinev), capital of Moldova, ex-Soviet Republic, during the period 1989 till present. […] The cases are opposite when the change of the hodonym does not lead to a change in semantics. [2021 November 30, Anastasia Romanova, “Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova”, in Urbana, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2025, pages 133, 137:]
Nouns inflected like hodonym
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to hod- + -onym. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὁδός'.