Pronounced: eye-scroh-luh-TREE-uh, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word; it is rather unpleasant
Yesterday’s word
The word polyonymous means “having or known by various names”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late mid-1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I saw the Greek roots in this word: poly- (many) and -onymous, which came from the word onoma [alt: onyma] (name), and thought of “many names”, which – to my surprise – was correct. You may recognize most of these other descendents from the Greek root onoma: anonymous, pseudonym, eponym, and patronymic.
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