métonymie

See also: metonymie and Metonymie

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin metonymia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”).

Pronunciation

Noun

métonymie f (plural métonymies)

  1. metonymy (use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object)
    Hypernym: synecdoque

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Romanian: metonimie
  • → Turkish: metonimi

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