Definition | Meaning
- Any name capable of being owned and trademarked, as opposed to a descriptive name.
Example | Illustration
Etymology | Origin
Compare | See
- descriptive name
Tag Archives: P
product brand
Definition | Meaning:
- A brand associated with a product or family of products.
Example | Illustration:
- The iPhone is a product brand.
portmanteau word
Definition | Meaning
- Any word or brand name created by the whimsical blending of two or more other words, as found in the works of Lewis Carroll.
Example | Illustration
- Snapple, a portmanteau of the English words ‘snap’ and ‘apple’
Etymology | Origin
Compare | See
- blend
polysemy
Definition | Meaning
- The proliferation of words sharing a single, ancestral root.
Example | Illustration
- the English words ‘aggregate’, ‘congregate’, ‘egregious’, ‘gregarious’, and ‘segregate’ are all derived from the Latin root greg- ‘to flock, to herd’
Etymology | Origin
polyonomy
Definition | Meaning
- The use of multiple names for the same company, product, or service.
- The use of several words to create one brand name.
Example | Illustration
Etymology | Origin
Compare | See
- poecilonymy
poecilonymy
Definition | Meaning
- The use of multiple names for the same company, product, or service.
- The use of several words to create one brand name.
Example | Illustration
Etymology | Origin
Compare | See
- polyonomy
phonogram
Definition | Meaning
- Any character or symbol used in place of a word.
Example | Illustration
- the @ sign
Etymology | Origin
phonestheme
Definition | Meaning
- A consonant cluster apparently associated with a particular semantic field, but with no distinguishable independent meaning.
Example | Illustration
- ‘gl-’
- ‘sn-’
- ‘sl-’
Etymology | Origin
phoneme
Definition | Meaning
- A meaningful sound, the smallest unit of speech which distinguishes one word from another in a given language.
Example | Illustration
- in the pair of words ‘bat’ and ‘mat’, the distinguishing sounds /b/ and /m/ are both phonemes
Etymology | Origin
personification
Definition | Meaning
- A figure of speech in which a company, product, or service is given human form.
Example | Illustration
- Mr. Clean cleaning products
- Nintendo Game Boy game system
Etymology | Origin
Compare | See
- eponym