Illustrations of English words derived from the Greek in the New Testament.
By Gaylon West.
name (n.)
Old English noma "name, reputation," from PIE *nomn- (source also of Greekonoma, onyma). {etyonline.com) Thayer Definition:
1) name: universal of proper names
2) the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.
3) persons reckoned up by name
4) the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason
English words using -onomaG3686 a Greek word used as an English structure word; examples:
onomastic (adj.) from Greek onomastikos "of or belonging to naming,"
onomatopoeia (n.) from Greek onomatopoiia "the making of a name or word" (in imitation of a sound
anonymous (adj.) from Greek anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" onoma "name"
paronomasia (n.) from Greek paronomasia "play upon words which sound similarly"
Jerome from Greek Hieronymos, literally "holy name," hieros "holy" + onyma eponym (n.) one whose name becomes that of a place, a people, an era, an institution, from Greek eponymos "given as a name, giving one's name to something "
homonym (n.) "word pronounced and perhaps spelled the same as another but different in meaning," from Greek homonymon, from homos "same" + onyma antonomasia (n.) rhetorical substitution of an epithet for a proper name (or vice versa; as in His Holiness for the name of a pope), from Greek antonomasia, from antonomazein "to name instead, call by a new name," from anti "instead" + onomazein "to name," from onoma synonym (n.) "word having the same sense as another " from Greek synonymon "word having the same sense as another," from syn- "together, same" + onyma metonymy (n.) from Greek metonymia, literally "a change of name," related to metonomazein "to call by a new name; to take a new name," from meta- "change" + onyma pseudonym (n.) from Greek pseudonymos "having a false name, under a false name," from pseudes "false" + onyma - http://www.etymonline.com/
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