Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
566. Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current;
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bilingual; diglot[obs3], hexaglot[obs3], polyglot; literary. Phr.
"syllables govern the world" [Selden].
#561. Letter.—N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c. (writing) 590;
type &c. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram,
ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet,
ABC[obs3], abecedary[obs3], christcross-row. consonant, vowel;
diphthong, triphthong[Gram]; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural.
syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable[obs3], polysyllable; affix, suffix.
spelling, orthograph[obs3]; phonography[obs3], phonetic spelling;
anagrammatism[obs3], metagrammatism[obs3]. cipher, monogram, anagram;
doubleacrostic[obs3]. V. spell. Adj. literal; alphabetical,
abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular[obs3], minuscular[obs3]; uncial &c.
(writing) 590.
#562. Word.—N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566;
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root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567;
ideophone[obs3].
dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance;
thesaurus; gradus[Lat], delectus[Lat].
etymology, derivation; glossology[obs3], terminology
orismology[obs3];
paleology &c. (philology) 560[obs3].
lexicography; glossographer &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist,
verbarian[obs3].
Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. conjugate[Similarly
derived],
paronymous[obs3]; derivative.
Adv. verbally &c. adj.; verbatim &c. (exactly) 494.
Phr. "the artillery of words" [Swift].
#563. Neologism.—N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression,
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nonce expression; back-formation; caconym[obs3]; barbarism.
archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.
corruption, missaying[obs3], malapropism, antiphrasis[obs3].
pun, paranomasia[obs3], play upon words; word play &c. (wit) 842;
double-entendre &c. (ambiguity) 520[Fr]; palindrome, paragram[obs3],
anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.
dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism,
regionalism,
localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism,
Gallicism,
Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism[obs3]; Gypsy lingo, Romany;
pidgin,
pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto,
Hindustani,
kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics[obs3], gibberish; confusion of tongues,
Babel;
babu English[obs3], chi-chi.
figure of speech &c. (metaphor) 521; byword.
colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.
substandard language, vernacular.
vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.
jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot;
St.
Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue,
Billingsgate,
Wall Street slang.
pseudology[obs3].
pseudonym &c. (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call
'em[obs3],
whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy[obs3], thingumbob; je ne sais
quoi[Fr].
neologist[obs3], coiner of words.
V. coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize.
Adj. neologic[obs3], neological[obs3]; archaic; obsolete &c. (old)
124; colloquial; Anglice[obs3].
#564. Nomenclature.—N. nomenclature; naming &c. v.; nuncupation|,
nomination, baptism; orismology[obs3]; onomatopoeia; antonomasia[obs3].
name; appelation[obs3], appelative[obs3]; designation, title; heading,
rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet. style, proper name;
praenomen[Lat], agnomen[obs3], cognomen; patronymic, surname;
cognomination[obs3]; eponym; compellation[obs3], description, antonym;
empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake. term,
expression, noun; byword; convertible terms &c. 522; technical term;
cant &c. 563. V. name, call, term, denominate designate, style,
entitle, clepe[obs3], dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify,
define, distinguish by the name of; label &c. (mark) 550. be -called &c
v.; take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by
the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in
the name of. Adj. named &c. v.; hight[obs3], ycleped, known as; what
one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly.
nuncupatory[obs3], nuncupative; cognominal[obs3], titular, nominal,
orismological[obs3]. Phr. "beggar'd all description" [Antony and
Cleopatra].
#565. Misnomer.—N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo[Lat]; Mrs.
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Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563[obs3]; Hoosier.
nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias;
nom
de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre[Fr], nom de plume; pseudonym,
pseudonymy.
V. misname, miscall, misterm[obs3]; nickname; assume a name.
Adj. misnamed &c. v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant[Fr]; self called,
self
styled, self christened; so-called.
nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate,
unnamed;
unacknowledged.
Adv. in no sense.
#566. Phrase.—N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence,
paragraph; figure of speech &c. 521; idiom, idiotism[obs3]; turn of
expression; style. paraphrase &c. (synonym) 522; periphrase &c.
(circumlocution) 573 motto &c. (proverb) 496[obs3]. phraseology &c.
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