xenonym
English
Etymology
From xeno- (“foreign”) + -onym (“name”).
Noun
xenonym (plural xenonyms)
- A name for a people or a language or a city etc. which is not used by the natives themselves. Germans, for example, is a xenonym for people who call themselves Deutsche, Cologne a xenonym for Köln, Austria for Österreich etc.
Synonyms
- exonym
Antonyms
- autonym, endonym
Related terms
- ethnonym
- glossonym