Associations to the word «Autonym»

Wiktionary

AUTONYM, noun. (taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the species epithet is repeated.
AUTONYM, noun. (linguistics) (anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
AUTONYM, noun. The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
AUTONYM, noun. A work published under the author's true name.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne