homophone

adjectivecommon noun

Syllable Decomposition

homophone

from Ancient Greek ὁμόφωνος homophonos (homophonos). The adjective and the noun were introduced by Champollion in 1822 and 1824 respectively.

Definitions

linguistique

Plural

homophones

Hyperonym

Hyponym

Translations

  • germangerman:Homophon
  • englishenglish:homophone
  • spanishspanish:homófono
  • greekgreek:ομόφωνος
  • italianitalian:omofono
  • dutchdutch:homofoon
  • polishpolish:homofon
  • portugueseportuguese:homófono
  • swedishswedish:homofon

See also

homophonie (cn.) homophones (adj.)