tautonym

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison.
    — And that would mean a species named Leucanthemum leucanthemum, with the genus and species epithet the same (a tautonym), which is a total no-no in botany.
  2. A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada.
    — The chapter on reduplication - "flip-flopping higgledy- piggledy through the riffraff" - differentiates rhyming compounds like bigwig, hotshot, ragtag, sci-fi from repetitions called tautonyms, such as bye-bye, so-so, rah-rah, as well as from ricochet words in which the repeated element is modified: chit-chat, roly-poly, shilly-shally.
  3. An absolute synonym.

词形变化

tautonyms plural

词汇关系

近义词
reduplicant
衍生词
tautonymic
相关词
tautonymy tautonymous

词源

From taut- + -onym or alternatively tauto- + -nym.
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