homonymic
41homonymy — homonym ► NOUN ▪ each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins. DERIVATIVES homonymic adjective homonymous adjective homonymy noun. ORIGIN Greek hom numos having the same name , from homos… …
42homonym — [häm′ə nim΄] n. [Fr homonyme < L homonymus < Gr homōnymos, having the same name < homos, SAME + onyma, NAME] 1. a word with the same pronunciation as another but with a different meaning, origin, and, usually, spelling (Ex.: bore and… …
43homonym — n. 1 a word of the same spelling or sound as another but of different meaning; a homograph or homophone. 2 a namesake. Derivatives: homonymic adj. homonymous adj. Etymology: L homonymum f. Gk homonumon (neut. adj.) (as HOMO , onoma name) …
44homonymity — noun see homonymic * * * homonymˈity noun • • • Main Entry: ↑homo …
45ABRAHAM HA-BAVLI — (apparently early 11th century), grammarian. Abraham ha Bavli is mentioned by Abraham Ibn Ezra and Jacob b. Meir (Rabbenu Tam). His Sefer ha Shorashim ( Book of Roots ), only part of which has been published (1863), deals with roots of one to… …
46FABLE — FABLE, an animal tale (according to the most general and hence most widely accepted definition), i.e., a tale in which the characters are animals, and which contains a moral lesson. The genre also includes tales in which plants or inanimate… …
47FOLKLORE — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction …
48HAPAX LEGOMENA — (Gr. once said ), words which are only once recorded in a certain kind of literature. Since the interest in Middle Hebrew lexicography arose comparatively late, Middle Hebrew texts are frequently not well established philologically and new texts… …
49IBN EZRA, MOSES BEN JACOB — (also known as Abu Harun; c. 1055–after 1135), Spanish Hebrew poet and philosopher. Born in Granada, he was a pupil of Isaac ibn Ghayyat in Lucena, the city of poetry. In his youth Moses acquired a very comprehensive Jewish and Arabic education.… …
50POETRY — This article is arranged according to the following outline (for modern poetry, see hebrew literature , Modern; see also prosody ): biblical poetry introduction the search for identifiable indicators of biblical poetry the presence of poetry in… …
