different between heteronym vs autantonym

English

Etymology

Coined around 1900, either from hetero- (“different”) +? -onym (“name”) or from Ancient Greek ?????????? (heter?numos), or perhaps both.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t.??.?(?).n?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?t.?.?o?.n?m/, /?h?t.?.??.n?m/

Noun

heteronym (plural heteronyms)

1. (linguistics) A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.

   Agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."

2. (literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): heterophone, homograph

Translations

See also

• List of English heteronyms defined in Wiktionary
• polyphone (a letter [or combination of letters] that can be pronounced in two or more different ways, such as ? / ? in Chinese, pronounced [cháng] in the sense of ’long’ and [zh?ng] in the sense of ’to grow’)

English

Etymology

aut- +? antonym.

Coined or reported by Joseph T. Shipley, 1960.

Noun

autantonym (plural autantonyms)

1. Alternative spelling of autoantonym
   • 1960, Joseph T. Shipley, Playing with Words, Prentice-Hall, p. 74

     autantonym — word having two opposite meanings (as a fast horse, and a fast color). Cf. contronym, heteronym, and homonym.

   • 1986, Harry Edwin Eiss, Dictionary of Language Games, Puzzles, and Amusements, Greenwood Press, p. 39.

     autantonym — word having two opposite meanings (as a fast horse, and a fast color). Cf. contronym, heteronym, and homonym.

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