namesake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
Compound parts: name
sake
Inflected forms:
form: namesakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: namesakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: namesaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: namesaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: namesaked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
pos: noun
gloss: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
pos: noun
examples: The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
Chris Evans, British DJ and media manipulator extraordinaire, is not to be confused with Chris Evans, Australia's shadow minister for family services, nor with Chris Evans, the late train robber of the wilds of west California, or indeed potentially hundreds of other namesakes. One unquestionable aspect of this Chris Evans is that he is unique.
Look at our namesakes too. There's Tom, of course - a bit creepy now but he definitely had his moments. There's Davy Jones out of the Monkees. Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones preferred Jones to his birth name Baldwin. And he's quite cool. There's an American brokerage firm called Edward Jones which perhaps isn't so cool.
gloss: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
pos: noun
examples: Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
gloss: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
pos: noun
examples: Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
gloss: Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To name (somebody) after somebody else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: adash
lang: Southern Altai
word: адаш
roman: adaš
lang: Arabic
word: سَمِيّ
roman: samiyy
lang: Arabic
word: سَمِيَّة
roman: samiyya
lang: Aramaic
word: ܒܪ ܫܡܐ
roman: bar šəmā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܒܥܠ ܫܡܐ
roman: bəʿel šəmā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܒܥܠܬ ܫܡܐ
roman: baʿlaṯ šəmā
lang: Armenian
word: անվանակից
roman: anvanakicʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: adaş
lang: Bashkir
word: аҙаш
roman: aźaş
lang: Belarusian
word: цёзка
roman: cjózka
lang: Belarusian
word: аднафамі́лец
roman: adnafamíljec
lang: Belarusian
word: аднафамі́ліца
roman: adnafamílica
lang: Central Bikol
word: tukayo
lang: Bulgarian
word: съи́менник
roman: sǎímennik
lang: Bulgarian
word: съи́менничка
roman: sǎímennička
lang: Bulgarian
word: ада́ш
roman: adáš
lang: Catalan
word: homònim
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同名者
roman: tóngmíngzhě
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同名的人
roman: tóngmíng de rén
lang: Czech
word: jmenovec
lang: Czech
word: jmenovkyně
lang: Danish
word: navnefælle
lang: Danish
word: navne
lang: Danish
word: navnebroder c/navnebror
lang: Danish
word: navnesøster
lang: Dutch
word: naamgenoot
lang: Esperanto
word: samnomulo
lang: Estonian
word: nimekaim
lang: Faroese
word: navni
lang: Faroese
word: navna
lang: Finnish
word: kaima
lang: French
word: homonyme
lang: German
word: Namensvetter
lang: Hindi
word: हमनाम
roman: hamnām
lang: Hungarian
word: névrokon
lang: Hungarian
word: drusza
lang: Italian
word: omonimo
lang: Japanese
word: 同名異人
roman: dōmei ijin
lang: Japanese
word: 同姓同名
roman: dōseidōmei
lang: Kazakh
word: адас
roman: adas
lang: Kazakh
word: аттас
roman: attas
lang: Khalaj
word: adaş
lang: Korean
word: 동명인
roman: dongmyeong'in
lang: Kyrgyz
word: атташ
roman: attaş
lang: Macedonian
word: имењак
roman: imenjak
lang: Macedonian
word: имењачка
roman: imenjačka
lang: Mongolian
word: амьдай
roman: amʹdaj
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: navnebror
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: navnesøster
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: navne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: namne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: namnebror
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: namnesyster
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: namnesøster
lang: Old Norse
word: nafni
lang: Old Norse
word: nafna
lang: Persian
word: همنام
roman: hamnâm
lang: Polish
word: imiennik
lang: Polish
word: imienniczka
lang: Portuguese
word: tocaio
lang: Portuguese
word: homónimo
lang: Portuguese
word: homônimo
lang: Portuguese
word: xará
lang: Romanian
word: tiz
lang: Russian
word: тёзка
roman: tjózka
lang: Russian
word: однофами́лец
roman: odnofamílec
lang: Russian
word: однофами́лица
roman: odnofamílica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: и̏мења̄к
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: презимѐња̄к
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȉmenjāk
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prezimènjāk
lang: Slovak
word: menovec
lang: Slovak
word: menovkyňa
lang: Slovene
word: soimenjak
lang: Slovene
word: soimenjakinja
lang: Spanish
word: tocayo
lang: Spanish
word: tocaya
lang: Spanish
word: homónimo
lang: Spanish
word: homónima
lang: Spanish
word: colombroño
lang: Swedish
word: namne
lang: Tajik
word: ҳамном
roman: hamnom
lang: Tajik
word: ҳамфамилия
roman: hamfamiliya
lang: Tatar
word: адаш
roman: adaş
lang: Tofa
word: шооза
roman: şooza
lang: Turkish
word: adaş
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آداش
roman: adaş
lang: Turkmen
word: adaş
lang: Tuvan
word: атташ
roman: attaş
lang: Ukrainian
word: тезко́
roman: tezkó
lang: Ukrainian
word: те́зка
roman: tézka
lang: Ukrainian
word: однофамі́льник
roman: odnofamílʹnyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: однофамі́льниця
roman: odnofamílʹnycja
lang: Urdu
word: ہمنام
roman: hamnām
lang: Uzbek
word: adash
lang: Vietnamese
word: người trùng tên