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onomastica

onomastica is the plural of onomasticon.

Meaning of onomasticon

Noun

onomasticon (plural onomasticons or onomastica)

  1. A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
    • We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.

Questions about onomastica

What is onomastica the plural of?
Onomastica is the plural of onomasticon.

Words near onomastica in the dictionary

  1. onomasiologist
  2. onomasiologists
  3. onomasiology
  4. onomast
  5. onomastic
  6. onomastica
  7. onomastically
  8. onomastician
  9. onomasticians
  10. onomasticide
  11. onomasticides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onomastica (page history and authors); onomasticon (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.

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