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==Etymology== The word ''homonym'' comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ὁμώνυμος (''homonymos''), meaning "having the same name,"<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%28mw%2Fnumos ὁμώνυμος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref> compounded from ὁμός (''homos'') "common, same, similar"<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%28mo%2Fs ὁμός], King George V Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicons'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref> and ὄνομα (''onoma'') "name."<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%29%2Fnoma ὄνομα], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref>
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