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alethonym

/əˈli.θəˌnɪm/

alethonym noun: the true name of a person.

Noun

alethonym (plural alethonyms)

  1. (rare) The true name of a person.
    • “Samuel Langhorne Clemens” is the alethonym of “Mark Twain”.
    • Or we can contemplate such literary power inductively by asking […] whether poetic names might not be alethonyms for ourselves and our homes, our lovers and our gods as the subjects of the predicates otherwise only floating through the pages of discourse.1999, Cyril Welch, Contemplative Logic: Interpretations of Rationality, Atcost Press, →ISBN, page 92
    Synonyms:
    orthonym
    Antonyms:
    pseudonym

Examples of alethonym in a sentence

  • The holster has been named in secret, and it’s^([sic]) moniker, Arcanum, is what remains of its alethonym.2024, Linda Codega, “Arcanum Holster”, in Zachary Cox, Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western, SoulMuppet Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:
  • Indeed, Matalusa Kingdom takes its name from the “chosen leader of the tribe-less” (0:56:30), Matalusa, who receives, in turn, the homophonic alias (or possibly alethonym) Martyr Loser King.2025, Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki, “The Art of Being Governed? On Failings of the Utopic Imagination”, in Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela...

Synonyms of alethonym

Antonyms

Forms of alethonym

pluralalethonyms

Origin of alethonym

From Ancient Greek ἀληθής (alēthḗs, “true”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to aletho- + -onym.

Words formed from alethonym

Questions about alethonym

What does alethonym mean?
Alethonym means the true name of a person.
How do you use alethonym in a sentence?
The holster has been named in secret, and it’s^([sic]) moniker, Arcanum, is what remains of its alethonym.
What part of speech is alethonym?
Alethonym is a noun.
How do you pronounce alethonym?
Alethonym is pronounced /əˈli.θəˌnɪm/.
What is the plural of alethonym?
The plural of alethonym is alethonyms.

Words near alethonym in the dictionary

  1. alethiologist
  2. alethiologists
  3. alethiology
  4. aletho-
  5. alethology
  6. alethonym
  7. alethonymous
  8. alethonyms
  9. alethophile
  10. alethophiles
  11. alethophilia

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