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onomastics pl ‎(plural only)

The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.

terms derived from the noun onomastics

branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names

Armenian: հատկանվանաբանություն ‎(hatkanvanabanutʿyun)
Basque: onomastika
Belarusian: анамастыка f ‎(anamastyka)
Bulgarian: ономастика (bg) f ‎(onomastika)
Chinese:
Mandarin:
Czech: onomastika (cs) f
Esperanto: onomastiko, nomscienco
Faroese: navnafrøði f, fólkanavnafrøði f
Finnish: nimistöntutkimus
French: onomastique (fr) f
German: Onomastik (de) f, Namenkunde (de) f, Onomatologie f, Onomasiologie (de) f, Namenforschung (de) f, Bezeichnungslehre (de) f
Hungarian: névtan (hu), onomasztika (hu)

1936, preceded by adjective onomastic ‎(“of or belonging to naming”) (1716), from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός ‎(onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός ‎(onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω ‎(onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα ‎(ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ ‎(“name”) (English name).^[1]