meronym

meronym

English

Etymology

From mero- +‎ -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɹənɪm/

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Noun

meronym (plural meronyms)

1. (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

   Synonym: partonym

   Antonym: holonym

   The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree".

   • 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 38,

     If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of 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: 分體詞／分体词 (fèntǐcí) Finnish: meronyymi (fi), osakäsite (fi) French: méronyme (fr) m German: Meronym (de) n, Teilbegriff (de) m, Bestandsbegriff m Greek: μερώνυμο (el) n (merónymo) Hungarian: meronima Polish: meronim (pl) m Russian: мероним (ru) m (meronim) Spanish: merónimo (es) m Swedish: meronym (sv) c

See also

• synecdoche

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Swedish

Noun

meronym c

1. (semantics) meronym

Declension

Declension of meronym
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	meronym	meronymen	meronymer	meronymerna
Genitive	meronyms	meronymens	meronymers	meronymernas