Sunday, November 18, 2012

What's ONOMASTICS?


Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: onomastikos, "of or belonging to naming" and onomatologia, from ónoma "name".

(based on Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon.)

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