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automeronym

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-tomeronym
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.

Etymology

From auto- + meronym; by surface analysis, auto- + mero- + -nym.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

automeronyms (plural)

Phrases

strictly speaking stricto sensu

Frequently Paired Words

automeronymy comeronym strictly speaking stricto sensu autoholonym

Questions

What does automeronym mean?
A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.
Where does automeronym come from?
From auto- + meronym; by surface analysis, auto- + mero- + -nym.

How to pronounce automeronym

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