paronyms
Meaning of paronyms
plural noun
- a word which is a derivative of another and has a related meaning.
‘wisdom’ is a paronym of ‘wise’
mid 19th century: from Greek parōnumon, neuter (used as a noun) of parōnumos ‘naming by modification’, from para- ‘beside’ + onuma ‘a name’.
Information about paronyms
- It is a name.
- The singular form of paronyms is: paronym.
- Languages in which paronyms is used:
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Hyphenation of paronyms
paronyms
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- paronyms is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with paronyms
paranyms, acronyms, allonyms, anonyms, antonyms, autonyms, caconyms, cohyponyms, cryptonyms, eponyms, ethnonyms, exonyms, heteronyms, homonyms, hyponyms, meronyms, metonyms, polyonyms, pseudonyms, retronyms, synonyms, tautonyms, toponyms, trionyms, hypernyms
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