meronym

English

Etymology

Frommero-+‎-onym,fromAncient Greekμέρος(méros,“part”)+ὄνυμα(ónuma,“name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈmɛɹənɪm/

• Audio(UK):

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Noun

meronym(pluralmeronyms)

1. (semantics)Atermused to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

   Synonym:partonym

   Antonym:holonym

   The word "leaf" is ameronymof the word "tree".

   • 1998,George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum, editor,Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database‎^[1],MIT Press,→ISBN,page38:

     If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels ofmeronyms,but many of thosemeronymswill also bemeronymsof other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

Holonyms

• semantic network
• thesaurus

Coordinate terms

• hypernym
• hyponym
• metonym(but be aware that some metonyms derive from meronyms; for example,wheels/automobile,jet/jet airplane,head/cow)

Derived terms

• comeronym
• meronymic
• meronymy
• meronymous

Translations

word denoting part of whole

• Afrikaans:meroniem(af)
• Catalan:merònim(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Phân thể từ／Phân thể từ(fèntǐcí)

• Finnish:meronyymi(fi),osakäsite(fi)
• French:méronyme(fr)m
• German:Meronym(de)n,Teilbegriff(de)m,Bestandsbegriffm
• Greek:μερώνυμο(el)n(merónymo)
• Hungarian:meronima
• Italian:meronimom
• Polish:meronim(pl)m
• Portuguese:merónimom(Portugal),merônimom(Brazil)
• Russian:меро́ним(ru)m(merónim)
• Spanish:merónimo(es)m
• Swedish:meronym(sv)c
• Vietnamese:từ phân,phân danh

See also

• synecdoche
• Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Swedish

Noun

meronymc

1. (semantics)meronym

Declension

Declension ofmeronym

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	meronym	meronyms
	definite	meronymen	meronymens
plural	indefinite	meronymer	meronymers
	definite	meronymerna	meronymernas