Definition | Meaning

1. A book, collection, dictionary, glossary, or lexicon of names.

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Etymology | Origin

• Ancient Greek onomastikon, the neuter form of onomastikos ‘belonging to names’ < onomazo ‘I name’ < onoma ‘name’
• Specifically, the Onomasticon, a famous thesaurus of Greek synonyms created by the Greek grammarian Ioulios Poludeukes | Julius Pollux circa 180 A.D.