orthonym
orthonym noun: the real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.
Noun
orthonym (plural orthonyms)
- The real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.
- “Samuel Langhorne Clemens” is the orthonym of “Mark Twain”.
- As such, the body of the collection is organic, housing a wide variety of heteronymic voices critically speaking to one another to enrich the overall complexity and yet unified wholeness of the orthonym that becomes the final product.2010, Peter M. Beattie, 'ReCapricorning' the Atlantic, →ISBN
- Antonyms:
- pseudonym, allonym, alias, pen name, nom de plume, stage name, nom de guerre
- The correct word for a concept in a specified language.
- This technique is illustrated by Example Two (Figure 6) where the non-native speaker (NNS) is searching for the orthonym, proposes a German word which is then translated by one of the native speakers (NS) of French.2002, Daniel W.C. So, Gary M. Jones, Education and Society in Plurilingual Contexts, →ISBN, page 13
- To perform a series of pragmatic functions, to find the 'right word' (the orthonym) or to fill the gap of words s/he doesn't know, that are momentarily not accessible or that may not even exist in the matrix language, s/he will switch to the embedded language.2003, Georges Lüdi, “Code-switching and Unbalanced Bilingualism”, in Bilingualism: Beyond Basic Principles
- Antonyms:
- mistranslation
Examples of orthonym in a sentence
- A pseudonym (literally “false name”) is a name that differs from an original orthonym (“true name”), and as popularly understood is a new name that a person assumes for a particular purpose.2010, Adrian Room, Dictionary of Pseudonyms, →ISBN:
- In other terms, a "foreign" element can be a borrowing from its very first occurrence if it is intended and interactively accepted as the orthonym in a monolingual setting.2004, Ulrich Ammon, Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 349:
Synonyms of orthonym
Antonyms
Forms of orthonym
| plural | orthonyms |
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Origin of orthonym
From ortho- + -onym.
Questions about orthonym
- What does orthonym mean?
- Orthonym means the real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.
- How do you use orthonym in a sentence?
- A pseudonym (literally “false name”) is a name that differs from an original orthonym (“true name”), and as popularly understood is a new name that a person assumes for a particular purpose.
- What part of speech is orthonym?
- Orthonym is a noun.
- What is the plural of orthonym?
- The plural of orthonym is orthonyms.
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