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comeronymy

comeronymy noun: the semantic relation between comeronyms (names for parts of a whole); the quality of being comeronymous.

Noun

comeronymy (uncountable)

  1. The semantic relation between comeronyms (names for parts of a whole); the quality of being comeronymous.
    • If Hansen et al. (1982, 203–204) are correct in including the sense of exclusion, i.e. cohyponymy, among the word‑internal semantic relations[…], then the question arises whether the other form of the exclusion relationship, comeronymy, could not be found among polysemes as well.2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, page 21
    • Finally, path types are defined as sequences of elementary relations represented by their macro identifier of Table 5, with two specific notations: […] second, two subsequences corresponding to well-known lexical relations are replaced by a specific identifier: h for the subsequence GG⁻¹, which...2015, Olivier Ferret, “Typing Relations in Distributional Thesauri”, in Núria Gala, Reinhard Rapp, Gemma Bel-Enguix, editors, Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon (Text, Speech and...

Origin of comeronymy

From co- + meronymy or comeronym + -y.

Questions about comeronymy

What does comeronymy mean?
Comeronymy means the semantic relation between comeronyms (names for parts of a whole); the quality of being comeronymous.
What part of speech is comeronymy?
Comeronymy is a noun.

Words near comeronymy in the dictionary

  1. comerlongerme
  2. comeronym
  3. comeronymic
  4. comeronymous
  5. comeronyms
  6. comeronymy
  7. comers
  8. comers and goers
  9. comes
  10. comes a cropper
  11. comes a gutser

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