In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under', and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term … See more

Computer science often terms this relationship an "is-a" relationship. For example, the phrase "Red is-a color" can be used to describe the hyponymic relationship … See more

• Snow, Rion; Jurafsky, Daniel; Ng, Andrew Y. (2004). "Learning syntactic patterns for automatic hypernym discovery" (PDF). Advances in Neural … See more

Hyperonym and hypernym mean the same thing, with both in use by linguists. The form hypernym interprets the -o- of hyponym as a part of hypo, such as in hypertension and hypotension. However, etymologically the -o- is part of the Greek stem ónoma. In … See more

• Contrast set
• Has-a
• Genus proximum
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