Word.ws English Dictionary

dromonyms

dromonyms is the plural of dromonym.

Meaning of dromonym

Noun

dromonym (plural dromonyms)

  1. (rare) A toponym (place name) that refers to a transportation route.
    • I am aware of only one potential dromonym (Figure 6a), where the apparent descriptive chan+te’ sak bih must also refer to a specific causeway of that length,¹² considering the prominence of numerals in proper names.2016, Sven Gronemeyer, “The Linguistics of Toponymy in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”, in Places of Power and Memory in Mesoamerica’s Past and Present, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2024, page 94

Questions about dromonyms

What is dromonyms the plural of?
Dromonyms is the plural of dromonym.

Words near dromonyms in the dictionary

  1. dromon
  2. dromond
  3. dromonds
  4. dromons
  5. dromonym
  6. dromonyms
  7. dromophobia
  8. Dromore
  9. dromornithid
  10. dromornithids
  11. dromos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dromonyms (page history and authors); dromonym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dromonyms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dromonyms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.