capitonymic

English

Etymology

From capitonym +‎ -ic.

Adjective

capitonymic (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to a capitonym.
    • 1998, Richard Lederer, The Word Circus, page 277:
      Capitonymic pairs that we perceive as English words — Concord/concord, Polish/polish, Reading/reading — are more satisfying than pairs that strike us as "foreign" […]
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