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anthroponymous

anthroponymous adjective: of or relating to an anthroponym.

Adjective

anthroponymous (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an anthroponym.
    • Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders.2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 72
    • Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village.2016, Order and Chivalry, page 53

Origin of anthroponymous

From anthroponym + -ous. By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onym + -ous = anthropo- + -nym + -ous.

Questions about anthroponymous

What does anthroponymous mean?
Anthroponymous means of or relating to an anthroponym.
What part of speech is anthroponymous?
Anthroponymous is an adjective.

Words near anthroponymous in the dictionary

  1. anthroponosis
  2. anthroponotic
  3. anthroponotically
  4. anthroponym
  5. anthroponymic
  6. anthroponymous
  7. anthroponyms
  8. anthroponymy
  9. anthropopathetic
  10. anthropopathetically
  11. anthropopathia

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