Onomasticon Definition

noun

A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.

We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
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Noun

Singular:
onomasticon
Plural:
onomasticons

Origin of Onomasticon

  • From Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικόν (onomastikon), neuter form of ὀνομαστικός (onomastikos, “belonging to names”), from ὀνομάζω (onomazō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (onoma, “name”).

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Onomasticon Sentence Examples

  • The Onomasticon places it 7 m.

  • Norberg (Codex Nazaraeus, liber Adami appellatus, 3 vols., Copenhagen, 1815-1816, followed by a lexicon in 1816, and an onomasticon in 1817), is so defective as to be quite useless; even the name Book of Adam is unknown to the Mandaeans.

  • The list of his works occupies five pages in Saxe's Onomasticon.

  • Eusebius in his Onomasticon uses it as a central point from which the distances of other towns are measured.

  • In the following year appeared the Onomasticon Zooicon of Walter Charleton, which contains some information on ornithology.

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Words Starting With

OONONO

Words Ending With

NONCON

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onomasticon

Words Starting With O and Ending With N

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With O11 Letter Words Ending With N