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  1. n. linguistics A word that changes sound and meaning when the case is changed; a case-sensitive word.

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  1. capital + -onym (Wiktionary)

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  1. language
  1. -nym
  1. things that make the Santa Fox grouchy

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Words tagged ‘capitonym’

  1. Capitonyms vs. captionyms: Why you should always assume sionnach is correct
  2. alpine
  3. apple
  4. arabic
  5. ares
  6. art
  7. august
  8. begin
  9. bill
  10. bob
  11. boxing
  12. bund
  13. calorie
  14. cancer
  15. captionym
  16. catholic
  17. celt
  1. chile
  2. china
  3. chou
  4. chow
  5. cologne
  6. concord
  7. crow
  8. cuban
  9. danish
  10. deaf
  11. degas
  12. embarrass
  13. eve
  14. ewe
  15. fiat
  16. ford
  17. frank
  1. gallic
  2. gateway
  3. german
  4. god
  5. herb
  6. hunker
  7. ionic
  8. italic
  9. japan
  10. job
  11. kris
  12. lee
  13. lent
  14. life
  15. lima
  16. magdalen
  17. major
  1. male
  2. malta
  3. manes
  4. march
  5. mark
  6. mass
  7. may
  8. mercury
  9. mesa
  10. mobile
  11. morocco
  12. mosaic
  13. mousehole
  14. natal
  15. nice
  16. pat
  17. piedmont
  1. pole
  2. polish
  3. providence
  4. rainier
  5. reading
  6. roman
  7. russian
  8. said
  9. scone
  10. scotch
  11. seat
  12. slough
  13. tang
  14. tangier
  15. time
  16. turkey
  17. welsh
  1. worms

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  • ruzuzu Oh, yay! Thanks to Wiktionary, we finally have an official definition for capitonym:

    "Wiktionary (1 definition)–noun
    (linguistics) A word that changes sound and meaning when the case is changed; a case-sensitive word."

    The fox was right (of course)!*

    *But I'm still going to pronounce lower-cased "capitonym" as captionym. (It's too late--I've already recorded it.) See Chile. Nov 5, 2010

  • ruzuzu See usage note on Chile. Mar 6, 2010

  • sionnach Not to be a contrarian or anything, but I always believed that, for a word to be a capitonym, both the meaning *and the pronunciation* had to change depending on capitalization.

    Thus, reading and polish qualify, but john, for instance, does not. Nov 15, 2007

  • skipvia It means you're just not a typie. Nov 15, 2007

  • mollusque Does that mean I have to make up a definition for "pointsettia"? As soon as I entered it I saw my typo, but I just tagged it as a misspelling. Nov 15, 2007

  • reesetee Skipvia, apparently you haven't attended the University of Madeupical Etymology. There's still time to enroll! Nov 15, 2007

  • john skipvia... shhhh... just make up a definition, pretend you meant it! See captionym for my attempt. Nov 14, 2007

  • skipvia It's capitonym. Captionym is not a word. I mistyped the word originally and deleted it immediately when I realized my mistake. It's still showing up, however.

    I hereby renounce all claim to being a Wordie. Nov 14, 2007

  • chained_bear Not to be a killjoy, but... is this capitonym, or captionym? (The pronuncation is different depending on where the I is.) Nov 14, 2007

  • skipvia Words that have a different meaning depending on capitalization, such as polish and Polish. Nov 14, 2007

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