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- noun Plural form of
paronym .
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It appears from Simplicius 'Commentary on Aristotle's Categories (Kalbfleisch 1907 38. 19-24) that Speusippus applied his method of division, however it worked, to language: there we hear of a division of terms even more elaborate than Aristotle's in the opening chapter of the Categories: there we hear of homonyms, synonyms, and paronyms, but Speusippus differentiated between tautonyms (uses of the same term), within which there are homonyms
Speusippus Dancy, Russell 2003
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These _homonyms_ and _paronyms_, as they are called by grammarians, offer a fine field for sciolists in philology, wherein to discover analogies between the Maya and other tongues, and they have been vigorously culled out for that purpose.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Names and words which are somewhat alike in sound, _paronyms_, as they are called by grammarians, may be taken or mistaken one for the other.
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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