paronomasiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pæɹənɵˈmeɪzɪə/, /pæɹənɵˈmeɪʒə/

名詞

paronomasia (countable and uncountable, plural paronomasias)

1. (rhetoric) A pun or play on words.
   • 1936 Ian Hay: Housemaster. London Hodder & Stoughton p. 234

     Oh, by the way, any attempt to present me with any kind of testimonial will result in stern measures.
     And when I say stern measures, I am indulging in a paronomasia, or play on words! Good night.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’ paronomasia for that wretched Place,
     is ‘No-Fuck’.

2. (rhetoric) The use of puns.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 88:

     Paronomasia to the sense alludes,
     When words but little varied it includes.]

   • 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:

     […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures
     which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.

関連する語

• paronomasiac
• paronomasic
• paronomastic

参照

• Silva Rhetoricae

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/, [pärɔnɔˈmäsiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /pa.ro.noˈma.si.a/, [päronoˈmäːs̬iä]

名詞

paronomasia f (genitive paronomasiae); first declension

1. A figure of speech; pun or play on words which sound alike but have different meanings, paronomasia.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (paronomasia): agnōminātiō

派生した語

• Catalan: paronomàsia
• French: paronomase
• English: paronomasia
• Italian: paronomasia
• Portuguese: paronomásia
• Spanish: paronomasia

参照

• “paronomasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paronomasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paronomasia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ryan Stark, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 190-95.