agnomination
English
Alternative forms
- agnominatio, adnominatio, adnomination
Etymology
From Latin agnominatio.
Noun
agnomination (plural agnominations)
- (rhetoric) A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
- (rhetoric) An alliteration.
- (rhetoric) polyptoton.
- (rhetoric) Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.