prosonomasia

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  1. In rhetoric, a figure wherein allusion is made to the likeness of a sound in two or more names or words; a kind of pun. A iesting frier that wrate against Erasmus called him, by resemblance to his own name, Errans mus, and [is] … mainteined by this figure Prosonomasia, or the Nicknamer. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 169.

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  1. from Greek προσονομασ, σ1ία, a naming, from προσονομάζειν, call by a name, from πρός, to, + ὀνομάζειν, name, from ὅνομα, name.
 

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