Hey guys this is a new word I coined on my way to a class at Andheri.I was attending a demo session by an aspirant English trainer.I asked her the meaning of eponym and she said there were words derived from mythology.That time a thought struck me: there is no word for words derived from mythology.
So I decided to coin one.The process was as follows:
synonym,antonym,toponym,eponym,acronym (are all words with some or the other meaning);so onym is a word.Since these are words coined from mythology (myhtos:story) I decided to join the two roots to derive a new word: mythonym
The details of the word are as follows:
Word: mythonym
Meaning:words derived from mythology
POS:noun
Usage:Pandora's box is an example of a mythonym.
Origin: mythos (story)+onoma (word/name)
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