onomato-, onoma-, onomo-, onom-, ono- +

1. The use of a title or formal description such as “Your Highness” or “His Excellency” in place of someone’s proper name.
2. The use of a proper name as a common noun to refer to someone or something with associated characteristics, e.g., in calling a handsome young man “an adonis”.

1. Divination or fortune telling with names.
2. Divination using proper names.

Someone who divines or foretells the future with names.

1. Onomasiology is the branch of lexicology that departs from a concept or a referent and asks for the names bestowed to it by different speech communities.
2. The study of names or naming; also, a branch of semantics concerned with related words and their meanings; the study of nomenclature.

Onomasiology is central to human interest in language. Due to the rich quantity of modern linguistic working materials; such as, dialect dictionaries, minutely compiled corpora etc., onomasiological studies can and must investigate small dialect areas in a detailled way in order to gain valuable insights into the processes of naming and name-changing.

Onomasiologists need good bibliographies, encyclopaedias, and some type of coherent linguistic data base to come up with comprehensive results.

1. Of, like, or pertaining to a name or a signature.
2. Pertaining to or consisting of names.

1. A dictionary or vocabulary of proper names.
2. A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specifically, a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

1. The study and history of names.
2. The study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.

Prognostication, or fortune telling, by using letters in a name.

Someone who is versed or is a specialist in the history of names.

The study and science of names or of their classifications.

1. A mania for names.
2. A morbid preoccupation with words and names or a mania for word-making.
3. A preoccupation with words and names.
4. An abnormal impulse to dwell upon certain words and their supposed significance or to frantically try to recall a particular word.

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

A morbid dread of some word or an intense mental anguish because one can not recall a word or to name something.

1. The use of imitative or echoic words.
2. The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; such as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

1. Imitative of the sound associated with the thing or action denoted by a word.
2. The formation or use of words; such as, buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to; such as, "Onomatopoeic words imitate or express the sounds of noises."