onomastic

adj — 2 senses

onomastic

adj

UK /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪk/ · US /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪk/

Etymology Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós).

1

Of or relating to a personal or place name.

  • The core of the study consists of an onomastic analysis and comparison of some selected areas of the urbanonymic system; I also delineate the characteristics of different urbanonymic types.2013, David Vaculík, “Parts of the city of Ostrava – The past and current state of urbanonymy”, in Masaryk University Brno, page 403:
2

Of or relating to onomastics.

Derived terms
onomastically, onomastics
Related terms
onomastician

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