agnomination
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin agnominatio.
Noun[edit]
agnomination (plural agnominations)
- (rhetoric) A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
- (rhetoric) An alliteration.
- (rhetoric) polyptoton.
- (rhetoric) Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.