urbanonym

From urban +‎ -onym.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛɹˈbænoʊˌnɪm/

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urbanonym (plural urbanonyms)

1. The name of an urban element (street, square etc.) in towns and cities.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Oksana Neher, Liudmyla Yursa, “THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY IN THE URBANONYMY OF UZHHOROD”, in ORBIS LINGUARUM, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, pages 191, 192:

     Due to the peculiar characteristics of their functioning, urbanonyms are instrumental in forming or transforming the historical memory of society. […] If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for secondary use.