agnominatio

Latin > English

agnominatio agnominationis N F :: linking two words different in meaning but similar in sound, paronomasia

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

agnōmĭnātĭo: (adn-), ōnis, f.,
I the bringing together two words different in meaning, but similar in sound, paronomasia, a rhet. fig., = παρονομασία: veniit a te antequam Romam venit. Hunc ăvium dulcedo ducit ad āvium. Si lenones tamquam leones vitāsset. Videte judices, utrum homini navo an vano credere malitis, etc., Auct. ad Her. 4, 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 66.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

agnōmĭnātĭō, ōnis, v. adnominatio.

Latin > German (Georges)

agnōminātio, ōnis, f. (ad u. nomino), als rhetor. Figur = παρονομασία, das Zusammenstellen zweier dem Klange nach ähnlicher, der Bedeutung nach ganz verschiedener Wörter, die Paronomasie (wie lenones u. leones u. dgl.), s. Cornif. rhet. 4, 29 u. (Plur.) 32. Quint. 6, 3, 66. Iul. Rufin. de schem. lex. 15.