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capitonymic

capitonymic adjective: being or pertaining to a capitonym.

Adjective

capitonymic (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to a capitonym.
    • Capitonymic pairs that we perceive as English words — Concord/concord, Polish/polish, Reading/reading — are more satisfying than pairs that strike us as "foreign" […]1998, Richard Lederer, The Word Circus, page 277

Origin of capitonymic

From capitonym + -ic.

Questions about capitonymic

What does capitonymic mean?
Capitonymic means being or pertaining to a capitonym.
What part of speech is capitonymic?
Capitonymic is an adjective.

Words near capitonymic in the dictionary

  1. capitols
  2. capitolunate
  3. capitonid
  4. capitonids
  5. capitonym
  6. capitonymic
  7. capitonyms
  8. Capitos
  9. capitosaur
  10. capitosaurian
  11. capitosaurid

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