zoonymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈzoʊ.ə.nɪm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈzəʊ.ə.nɪm/

名詞

zoonym (plural zoonyms)

1. (linguistics) The common name for a (species of) animal
   • 1997, Serbian Literary Magazine, page 19:

     ln favour of their special relations with the front-Asian civilization there speaks not only the term knjiga but the zoonym opica as well.

   • 2014, Cristiana Franco, Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece‎, page 11:

     In a study of considerable interest, he claimed to find a correlation between the offensive use of an anima's name and its position in the cultural taxonomy: it is not so much the animal's negative characteristics as its position with respect to humans that determines the choice of zoonym for an insult.

   • 2014, Nachum Dershowitz, Language, Culture, Computation: Computing for the Humanities, Law, and Narratives‎, page 202:

     By contrast, the zoonym mockingbird denotes the bird species Mimus polyglottus, a bird which imitates the cries or the notes of other birds, and lives in southern North America, Central America […]

使用する際の注意点

• In older literature, zoonyms are occasionally found in use for the classificatory (“scientific”) names, which is not recommended by International Council of Onomastic Sciences.