FromLatinparonomasia, fromAncient Greekπαρονομασία(paronomasía,“play upon words which sound alike”), fromπαρα-(para-) +ὀνομασία(onomasía,“naming”).

• IPA^(key): /pæɹənɵˈmeɪzɪə/,/pæɹənɵˈmeɪʒə/

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paronomasia (countable anduncountable,pluralparonomasias)

1. (rhetoric) Apun or play on words.
   • 1936 Ian Hay: Housemaster. London Hodder & Stoughton p. 234

     Oh, by the way, any attempt to present me with any kind oftestimonial will result in stern measures.
     And when I say stern measures, I am indulging in a paronomasia, or play on words! Good night.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon,Mason & Dixon:

     Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’paronomasia for that wretched Place,
     is ‘No-Fuck’.

2. (rhetoric) The use of puns.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley,A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate,→OCLC,page88:

     Paronomasia to the sense alludes,
     When words but little varied it includes.]

   • 1984, Anthony Burgess,Enderby's Dark Lady:

     […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures
     which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numericalparonomasia.

• paronomasiac
• paronomasic
• paronomastic

• Silva Rhetoricae

FromLatinparonomasia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑronoˌmɑsiɑ/,[ˈpɑ̝ro̞no̞ˌmɑ̝s̠iɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-ɑsiɑ
• Hyphenation^(key):pa‧rono‧masia

paronomasia

1. paronomasia

FromLatinparonomasia.

paronomasia f (pluralparonomasie)

1. paronomasia

• paronomastico

• paronomasia in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

FromAncient Greekπαρονομασία(paronomasía,“play upon words which sound alike”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/,[pärɔnɔˈmäs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/,[päronoˈmäːs̬iä]

paronomasia f (genitiveparonomasiae);first declension

1. Afigure ofspeech;pun orplay onwords which sound alike but have different meanings,paronomasia.

First-declension noun.

• (paronomasia):agnōminātiō

• Catalan:paronomàsia
• French:paronomase
• English:paronomasia
• Italian:paronomasia
• Portuguese:paronomásia
• Spanish:paronomasia

• “paronomasia”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paronomasia inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paronomasia”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ryan Stark,Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 190-95.

• IPA^(key): /paɾonoˈmasja/[pa.ɾo.noˈma.sja]
• Rhymes:-asja
• Syllabification:pa‧ro‧no‧ma‧sia

paronomasia f (pluralparonomasias)

1. paronomasia

• “paronomasia”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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