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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A paronymous word.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A word which is a derivative from another.
  2. n. A word of one language which translates a word of another with only a difference of termination or other slight change, as English canal for the Latin canalis: opposed to heteronym.

Wiktionary

  1. n. semantics A word derived from the same root, or with the same sound, as another word.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A paronymous word.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek παρα ‘beside’ + ονομα ‘-onym’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek parōnumon, from neuter sing. of parōnumos, derivative; see paronymous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged.”

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  1. paronymic
  1. paronymize
  1. isonym
  1. conjugate
  1. synonym

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  • mialuthien paronym – a word that is related to another word and derives from the same root; a cognate word Jul 18, 2008

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