Orthonym

Quick meaning: Orthonym is a noun meaning The real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.

Meaning

The real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics) The correct word for a concept in a specified language.

Example Sentences

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

A pseudonym (literally “false name”) is a name that differs from an original orthonym (“true name”), and as popularly understood is a new name that a person assumes for a particular purpose.

This technique is illustrated by Example Two (Figure 6) where the non-native speaker (NNS) is searching for the orthonym, proposes a German word which is then translated by one of the native speakers (NS) of French.

As such, the body of the collection is organic, housing a wide variety of heteronymic voices critically speaking to one another to enrich the overall complexity and yet unified wholeness of the orthonym that becomes the final product.

Word Forms

• orthonyms

Synonyms for orthonym

Depending on context, synonyms include autonym, alethonym.

Antonyms for orthonym

Common opposites include pseudonym, allonym, alias, mistranslation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alethonym, autonym, eponym, telonym, self-name, mononym.

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