alethonymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈli.θəˌnɪm/

名詞

alethonym (plural alethonyms)

1. (very rare) The true name of a person.

   Synonym: orthonym

   Antonym: pseudonym

   “Samuel Langhorne Clemens” is the alethonym of “Mark Twain”.

   • 1999, Cyril Welch, Contemplative Logic: Interpretations of Rationality, Atcost Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     Or we can contemplate such literary power inductively by asking […] whether poetic names might not be alethonyms for ourselves and our homes, our lovers and our gods as the subjects of the predicates otherwise only floating through the pages of discourse.

   • 2024, Linda Codega, “Arcanum Holster”, in Zachary Cox, Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western, SoulMuppet Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:

     The holster has been named in secret, and it’s moniker, Arcanum, is what remains of its alethonym.

   • 2025, Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki, “The Art of Being Governed? On Failings of the Utopic Imagination”, in Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu, editors, Inhabiting Ustopia: Science Fiction in Film, Performing Arts, and Digital Media, Springer, →ISBN, page 148:

     Indeed, Matalusa Kingdom takes its name from the “chosen leader of the tribe-less” (0:56:30), Matalusa, who receives, in turn, the homophonic alias (or possibly alethonym) Martyr Loser King.

派生語

• alethonymous