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isonymies

isonymies is the plural of isonymy.

Meaning of isonymy

Noun

isonymy (countable and uncountable, plural isonymies)

  1. The property of having the same name, especially the same family name.
    • This was reflected also in three types of measure of inbreeding: (1) close inbreeding recorded in ecclesiastical dispensations for marriages of relatives; (2) total inbreeding from pedigrees; and (3) inbreeding from marital isonymy.1985, Gabriel Ward Lasker, Surnames and Genetic Structure, →ISBN

Questions about isonymies

What is isonymies the plural of?
Isonymies is the plural of isonymy.

Words near isonymies in the dictionary

  1. Isons
  2. isonuclear
  3. isonutritive
  4. isonym
  5. isonymic
  6. isonymies
  7. isonymous
  8. isonyms
  9. isonymy
  10. ISOO
  11. isoobtusilactone

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