heteronym

English

WOTD – 21 November 2008

Etymology

Coined around 1900, either from hetero- (“different”) +‎ -onym (“name”) or from Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos), or perhaps both.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛt.əɹ.ə(ʊ).nɪm/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹoʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹə.nɪm/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

heteronym (plural heteronyms)

(linguistics) A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.
Agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."
(literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

Synonyms

(linguistics): heterophone, homograph

Translations

word having the same spelling but different pronunciation

Finnish: heteronyymi
French: hétéronyme (fr) m
German: Heteronym (de) n
Greek: ετερώνυμο (el) n (eterónymo)
Khmer: វិកល្បពាក្យ (vi’kɑlpa’ piek)
Portuguese: heterónimo (pt) m (Portugal), heterônimo (pt) m (Brazil)

Russian: омо́граф (ru) m (omógraf), гетеро́ним m (getɛrónim)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хетероним m

Roman: heteronim (sh) m
Spanish: heterónimo (es) m
Turkish: eşadlı (tr)

fictitious character writing in a different style

Finnish: heteronyymi
French: hétéronyme (fr) m
Polish: heteronim m
Portuguese: heterónimo (pt) m (Portugal), heterônimo (pt) m (Brazil)
Russian: гетеро́ним m (getɛrónim)

Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хетероним m

Roman: heteronim (sh) m
Spanish: heterónimo (es) m

See also

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.

Different Meanings
nym	Sound	Spelling	Category
homonym	same	same
heteronym	different	same	(cat)
homograph	not specified	same
homophone	same	different	(cat)
heterophone	different	different
synonym	different	different

List of English heteronyms defined in Wiktionary

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