English
Etymology
From demo- + -onym, from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).[1] Possibly revived in 1997 by Paul Dickson of Merriam-Webster.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛmənɪm/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɛmənɪm/
Noun
demonym (plural demonyms)
- A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.
- Why is it that people from the United States use American as their demonym?
- (obsolete) A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
- The Logophile has my favourite demonym; I would write under it if he didn't.
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Translations
name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place
- Arabic: نِسْبَة (ar) f (nisba), دِيمُونِيم m (dīmūnīm)
- Aragonese: chentilicio m
- Azerbaijani: demonim
- Belarusian: катайко́нім m (katajkónim), дэмо́нім m (demónim), этніко́н m (etnikón)
- Bulgarian: демоним m (demonim)
- Catalan: gentilici (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 當地居民嘅嗌法 / 当地居民嘅嗌法 (dong1 dei6 geoi1 man4 ge3 aai3 faat3)
- Mandarin: 區域居民稱謂詞 / 区域居民称谓词 (qūyù jūmín chēngwèi cí)
- Min Nan: 人民號名 / 人民号名 (jîn-bîn hō-miâ)
- Wu: 區域居民稱謂詞 / 区域居民称谓词
- Danish: indbyggerbetegnelse c, demonym n
- Dutch: volksnaam (nl) m, demoniem (nl) n, inwonersnaam m
- Esperanto: demonimo
- Extremaduran: gentilíciu m
- Finnish: asukkaannimitys (fi)
- French: gentilé (fr) m, ethnonyme (fr) m, démonyme (fr) m
- Galician: xentilicio (gl) m
- German: Volksbezeichnung f, Demonym (de) n
- Greek: πατριδωνυμικό (el) n (patridonymikó), δημωνύμιο (el) n (dimonýmio), δημώνυμο n (dimónymo)
- Hindi: वासीनाम m (vāsīnām)
- Italian: demonimo (it) m, etnonimo (it) m
- Kazakh: этнохороним (étnoxoronim), этникон (étnikon)
- Korean: 데모님 (demonim)
- Latin: dēmōny̆mum (la) n, gentīlicius m
- Lithuanian: demonimas m
- Macedonian: демоним m (demonim)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: innbyggernavn n, demonym (no) n
- Occitan: gentilici (oc) m, etnonim m
- Polish: określenie na mieszkańca n
- Portuguese: gentílico (pt) m, gentilício m, etnônimo (pt) m, demônimo (pt) m
- Romanian: demonim (ro) n, nume de locuitori n
- Russian: этнохоро́ним (ru) m (etnoxorónim), этнико́н m (etnikón), демо́ним m (demónim)
- Serbo-Croatian: demonim m
- Slovak: demonym m
- Slovene: demoním m
- Spanish: gentilicio (es) m
- Swedish: invånarnamn (sv) n, demonym (sv) c
- Tamil: நாட்டுப்பெயர் (nāṭṭuppeyar), இராச்சியப்பெயர் (irācciyappeyar)
- Thai: เดมะนิม (dee-má-nim)
- Turkish: demonim
- Ukrainian: демо́нім m (demónim)
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