Associations to the word «Onomastics»
Wiktionary
ONOMASTICS, noun. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
Dictionary definition
ONOMASTICS, noun. The branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.