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
musique

Plural

homophones

Hyperonym

Hyponym

Translations

  • germangerman:homophon
  • englishenglish:homophonous
  • arabicarabic:لفظة متجانسة
  • spanishspanish:homófono
  • italianitalian:omofono
  • dutchdutch:homofoon