homonymous
adjEtymology Adapted borrowing of Latin homōnymus (“having the same name”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμος (homṓnumos). By surface analysis, homonym + -ous.
1
Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).
2
Of or pertaining to a homonym.
3
Medicine, Ophthalmology, Sciences Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)
- Antonyms
- heteronymous
- Derived terms
- homonymously, nonhomonymous, non-homonymous