onomastics – English noun declension

English noun forms of onomastics

Noun: onomastics
Singularonomastics

Sample Sentences

  • Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children. [2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 65:]
  • From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.). [(Can we date this quote?), David Vaculík, “Parts of the city of Ostrava – The past and current state of urbanonymy”, in Masaryk University Brno, page 405:]

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)bor.
24. English onomastic
25. Old English -as
26. Middle English -es
27. English -s
28. English onomastics
29. First attested in 1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name). See: French Nouns 'onomastique', English Nouns 'name'.

Verbs referencing "onomastics"

Polish Nouns onomastyka.