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onomatology
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onomatology [on″o-mah-tol´ŏ-je]
the science of names and nomenclature.
onomatology
the science of names and nomenclature.
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Leonard Ashley also cautions that literary onomastics "too often means no more than listing the names that appear in some novel (when it should, of course, concern itself with analyzing why and how names function in fiction)" (77).
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Trained as a mathematician in Russia before emigrating to Paris, he was hailed as a sort of wunderkind when he emerged on the onomastics scene in the 1990s, and he continues to lead the field today.
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