单词 | homonymy |
释义 | homonymyn. The quality of being homonymous; the use of the same name for different things, as in Taxonomy, etc.; †equivocation, ambiguity (obsolete); sameness of name with difference of sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > homonymy > [noun] homonymy1597 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Qjv Homonumia, whiche maie be called in english, the doubtfulnes of one worde, when it signifieth diuersly.] 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 150 You play upon the Homonymie of the word Loue. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Homonymie, a terme in Logicke, when one word signifieth diuers things: as Hart: signifying a beast, and a principall member of the body. 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. i. 220 Proper Names..often fall into Homonymie, that is, different Persons often go by the same Name. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 24 There existed certain homonymies and certain affinities of religious worship, between parts of Bœotia and parts of Thessaly. 1896 Ld. Walsingham & J. H. Durrant Rules for Nomencl. 9 A name homophonous with a valid name is invalid in accordance with the rule governing homonymy. 1964 Internat. Code Zool. Nomencl. 55 Homonymy does not exist between two identical species-group names originally or subsequently placed in different genera that bear homonymous names. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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