Noun: onomasticon
| Singular | onomasticon |
| Plural | onomasticons; onomastica |
Sample Sentences
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We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
Nouns inflected like onomasticon
xyston,
upsilon,
onomasticon,
apastron,
analogion,
hexadecachoron,
parallelohedron,
bioctahedron,
omophorion,
Omicron,
phaneron,
epiplastron,
acroterion,
hypoplastron,
mixolimnion,
diachylon,
proamnion,
chrismon,
extrachorion,
trihemitetartemorion, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *ónomə̃
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
4. Proto-Hellenic *ónomə
5. Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
6. Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō)
7. Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō)
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Hellenic *-tis
10. Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
11. Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
12. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
13. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
14. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
15. ?
16. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
17. Proto-Hellenic *-tós
18. Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
19. ▲
20. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
21. ?
22. Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
23. Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)
24. Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκόν (onomăstĭkón)
25. English onomasticon
26. From Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικόν (onomastikón), neuter form of ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós, “belonging to names”), from ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
27. The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ὄνομα/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field. This principle of ordering is very old (it was already known in Near Eastern culture in the 2nd millennium BC; Lists) and undoubtedly was the most common one up to the Augustan period. Source: Onomastikon — Brill