heteronymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

By surface analysis, hetero (“different”) +‎ -onym (“name”). Compare Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos). First attested in 1885 in sense 1. The coining of this term in sense 3 (as Portuguese heterónimo) is usually attributed to Fernando Pessoa.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhɛt.əɹ.ə(ʊ).nɪm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹoʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹə.nɪm/

名詞

heteronym (plural heteronyms)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) (linguistics, dated) Calque. [from 1885]
2. (linguistics) A word having the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning and (often) pronunciation. [from 1889]

   Coordinate term: capitonym

   Near-synonyms: heterophone, homograph

   The word lead (/ˈlɛd/), for the metal, and lead (/ˈliːd/), for a leash, are heteronyms.

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

3. (literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
   • 2018, Hamid Ghahremani Kouredarei, Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam, “W.B. Yeats and the Introduction of Heteronym into the Western Literary Canon”, in Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, volume 8, number 8, →DOI, page 357:

     […] the present paper aims at illuminating the origins of the concept under study, as well as presenting its readers with the reasons why certain characters in some of Yeats’s works go beyond mere masks and personae and fulfil the criteria to be considered as heteronyms.

   • 2021, Niall Kennedy, “The Intercessor or Heteronym in Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa”, in Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, editors, Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

     Heteronyms are the distinct poetic personae that Pessoa adopted during the writing of his poems, and who were presented as their true authors.

派生語

参考

• Category:English heteronyms
• homonym
• polyphone (a letter [or combination of letters] that can be pronounced in two or more different ways, such as 長 / 长 in Chinese, pronounced [cháng] in the sense of ’long’ and [zhǎng] in the sense of ’to grow’)