orthonym
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Samuel Langhorne Clemens” is the orthonym of “Mark Twain”."
- "As such, the body of the collection is organic, housing a wide variety of heteronymic voices critically speaking to one another to enrich the overall complexity and yet unified wholeness of the orthonym that becomes the final product."
- "A pseudonym (literally “false name”) is a name that differs from an original orthonym (“true name”), and as popularly understood is a new name that a person assumes for a particular purpose."
- "“No sólo ser otro sino escribir la obra de otro” [“Not Only Being Other but Also Writing the Work of the Other”] thus engages Pessoa's poem “Autopsicografia” — attributed to the orthonym “Fernando Pessoa” — in a way that draws from the larger imaginary of Pessoa's notion of "channeling oneself," since Pessoa's poem's title, as Darlene Sadlier suggests, is "derived from the Portuguese psicografia [and] refers to the occult practice of writing through the suggestion or action of a spirit medium.""
- "This technique is illustrated by Example Two (Figure 6) where the non-native speaker (NNS) is searching for the orthonym, proposes a German word which is then translated by one of the native speakers (NS) of French."
- "To perform a series of pragmatic functions, to find the 'right word' (the orthonym) or to fill the gap of words s/he doesn't know, that are momentarily not accessible or that may not even exist in the matrix language, s/he will switch to the embedded language."
Etymology
From ortho- + -onym.