• Hodonymy

    Origin

    - + hodo + -

    Full definition of hodonymy

    Noun

    hodonymy

    (uncountable)
    1. The naming of streets and roads.
      • 1976, Raymond Chevallier, Roman roads, The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).
      • 1995, , Onoma - Volume 32, Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.
      • 1996, Ernst Eichler, Name Studies, The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.
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