English

Noun

polynymy ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of polyonymy
   • 1978, Mohammad A. Jazayery, General and Theoretical Linguistics, ISBN 3110808994, page 289:

     Synchronically, we are dealing here with the simultaneous multilingual interplay of polynymy (involving several similar forms) and polysemy (involving several connected meanings).

   • 2007, Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on Ambiguity, ISBN 0521047722, page 475:

     Curiously, in the course of speculating on the details of the connection, Kidd associates the 'quam multa?' group with ambiguity, yet seems to identify them with cases of polynymy.

   • 2009, Sean M. McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine, ISBN 0191610348:

     The polynymy of the Stoic god was not an isolated phenomenon.

2. The use of names that are polynyms.
   • 1889, George Frederick Shrady & ‎Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 36, page 578:

     Such, at least, is the opinion of Dr. A. D. Macdonald {Medical Press and Circular), and he is certainly to be congratulated for giving us so rhythmical an addition to polynymy, as well as in attaching an actual anatomical disorder to a purely physiological centre.

   • 1966, Centrul de Informare și Documentare în Științele Sociale și Politice, Romanian Scientific Abstracts - Volume 3, page 727:

     Thus, in the sphere of form the correlation mononymy-polynymy applies to the structural unity of the word being not extended to the whole.

   • 1983, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aeivi - Volumes 2-4, page 77:

     On the basis of the evidence that has been presented thus far, we can observe that the polynymy found amongst the Hephthalites is typical of other nomadic...