Exonym vs Autonym - What's the difference?
exonym | autonym | Antonyms |
A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
A place name or a personal nameExonyms and Endonyms'' at www.geocities.com/agihard/ILA-exonym-talk-text.doc page 3 used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as ''Moscow'' in English for the city called ''Moskva'' in Russian, or such as ''Charles'' in English for historical people called ''Karl'' or ''Carl in their Germanic languages.
(taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the species epithet is repeated.
(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.
The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
A work published under the author's true name."Autonym", OED 2nd ed.
* 1900 , Mr. Barnwell, "Cataloging Roundtable", in Library Journal , page 157
Autonym is a antonym of exonym.
As nouns the difference between exonym and autonym
is that exonym is a name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to while autonym is an infraspecific name in which the species epithet is repeated.exonym
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Noun
(en noun)- Exonyms form a typical (but very useful) example of cultural chauvinism.
Antonyms
* endonymSee also
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autonym
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(wikipedia autonym)Noun
(en noun)- Deutsche is the autonym of the people known in English as Germans .
- As a general principle, the heading of the main entry of the book should be in the form in which the book itself is published; that is, if it is published under an autonym' let the ' autonym be given, if under a pseudonym, then let the pseudonym be given, and if the book be anonymous, then let the fact be stated.