Talk:antonym

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Um... why is it, exactly, that there are different pages for "antonym" and "Antonym"? 71.113.127.38 02:55, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * antonym (e.g. English) and Antonym (German) are spelled differently, so there are different entries. Similiar Bär and Bar (both German) have their own entries even though umlauts like "ä" are sometimes put as simply "a" in English. -93.196.237.37 00:40, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Latin translation?
Is "antonymum" a common Latin translation? antonymum (pl. antonyma) is used at la.wiktionary, but it could still be uncommon or made up. -93.196.237.37 00:40, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * [books.google.de/books?id=n3FmNGU6pysC&pg=PA123]&[books.google.de/books?id=2WlAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48] state that "antonymum" is Latin for antonym. But they are just modern English books, whose author maybe created pseudo-Latinisms.
 * [www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost07/Isidorus/isi_et01.html#c01] includes "[s]ynonyma" (and "[h]omonyma"), but no "antonyma". By analogy it should at least be possible that antonymum exists in Latin.

Coordinate terms vs Antonyms puzzle
Not being a lexicographer unfortunately, I'd like to know the nuances between the two above concepts please. For example, why is a "reginicide" a "coordinate term" of "regicide" WHILE "mariticide" is an "antonym" of "uxoricide" AND "patricide" is neither... of "matricide" (and even more puzzling, in Wikt "uxoricide" is NOT identified as an"antonym" of "mariticide" AND "fratricide"/"sororicide" are only "related terms" ;-) ? --    Alain  R 3 4 5   Techno-Wiki-Geek    21:16, 6 March 2021 (UTC)