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Hyponym

Hyponym

See also: hyponym

German

Noun

Hyponym n ‎(genitive Hyponyms, plural Hyponyme)

(linguistics) hyponym

Declension

Declension of Hyponym

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Hyponym	die	Hyponyme
genitive	eines	des	Hyponyms	der	Hyponyme
dative	einem	dem	Hyponym	den	Hyponymen
accusative	ein	das	Hyponym	die	Hyponyme

Synonyms

Unterbegriff

Derived terms

Kohyponym

hyponym

hyponym

See also: Hyponym

English

Noun

hyponym ‎(plural hyponyms)

(semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.
Dog is a hyponym of animal.‎
- 1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521216133, page 86:
  Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.

Antonyms

hyperonym, hypernym

Coordinate terms

meronym

Related terms

Translations

more specific word

Armenian: հիպոնիմ ‎(hiponim), ենթանիշ ‎(entʿaniš) (rare)
Catalan: hipònim (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 下義詞, 下义词 ‎(xiàyìcí), 下位詞, 下位词 ‎(xiàwèicí)
Czech: hyponymum (cs) n
Dutch: hyponiem (nl) n
Esperanto: hiponimo
Finnish: alakäsite (fi), hyponyymi (fi)
French: hyponyme (fr) m
German: Unterbegriff (de) m, Hyponym (de) n
Greek: υπώνυμο (el) n ‎(ypónymo)
Icelandic: undirheiti (is) n

Italian: iponimo (it) m
Japanese: 下位語 ‎(かいご, kaigo)
Polish: hiponim (pl) m inan
Portuguese: hipónimo (pt) m
Romanian: hiponim n
Russian: гипо́ним (ru) m ‎(gipónim)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: хипо̀нӣм m

Roman: hipònīm (sh) m
Slovene: podpomenka f
Spanish: hipónimo (es) m
Swedish: hyponym (sv) c
Turkish: alt kavram
Walloon: dizotrin mot (wa) m

See also

hyponym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs.

Swedish

Noun

hyponym c

hyponym

Declension

Inflection of hyponym
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hyponym	hyponymen	hyponymer	hyponymerna
Genitive	hyponyms	hyponymens	hyponymers	hyponymernas