misnomer英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
An incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname. broadly

— […] plaintiff's misstyling himself as corporation in initial complaint constituted case of misnomer.
A term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both. broadly

— The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.
Something which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth. broadly,nonstandard,proscribed

— It’s a misnomer that all doctors have bad handwriting.

动词 v.

To use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname. transitive

词形变化

misnomers plural misnomers present,singular,third-person misnomering participle,present misnomered participle,past misnomered past

词汇关系

衍生词

misnome misnomered misnominal

词源

词源 1

The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

词源 2

The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The verb is derived from the noun.