Latin

Alternative forms

• parōnymum

Noun

parōnymon n ‎(genitive parōnymī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) paronym
   • 4th C.?, Diomedes (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Ars grammatica in Grammatici Latini I (1857), p. 324, ll. 8–9:

     Paronyma sunt quae ab alio quodam trahuntur et nihil de supra memoratis significant, ut equus eques.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:paronymon.

Declension

Second declension, Greek type.

References

• “Paronymon” in Ambrosius Calepinus’s Dictionarium Latinum (1502)

  Paronymon.nomen ab alio deriuatum.

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “părōny̆ma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,117/2.