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exonym
[ek-soh-nim]
noun
Anthropology.
a name used by outsiders for a place, such as Florence for Firenze.
a name used by outsiders to refer to an ethnic, racial, or social group or its language that the group itself does not use, such as Chamorro rather than CHamoru .
exonym
/ ˈɛəˌɪ /
noun
a name given to a place by foreigners
Londres is an exonym of London
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Other 51Թ Forms
- exonymic adjective
- exonymous adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of exonym1
First recorded in 1955–60; ex(o)- ( def. ) + -onym ( def. )
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of exonym1
C20: from Greek ex- 1 + -onym
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The term is what Ancient Greek rhetoricians would have called an “exonym”: a term for another group, which signals that the speaker does not belong to it.
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