Thursday 12th May 2016
Toponym \ [top-uh-nim]
noun
1. a place name.
2. a name derived from the name of a place.
Quote
The evocative resonance between the name, Balbec or Venice, and the experience
of the place itself, unleashes the signifying power of the toponym into the
imagination.
...Elisabeth Hodges, Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance 2008
Origin
Toponym blends top- meaning "place" and -onym meaning "word; name." It
entered English in the late 1800’s.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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