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Date Posted: 08:07:05 08/29/09 Sat
Author: Ignęs Cecília
Subject: Hyponym

Hello dear mates!
Here we are again!

Reading our text I've found out the term "hyponym" (hipônimo)on page 65.
I've never heard about it, have you? We are used to synomyms and antonyms. Then I researched on the internet and look at what I found out on Wikipedia:

In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic range is included within that of another word, its hypernym (sometimes spelled hyperonym outside of the natural language processing community). For example, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, and crimson are all hyponyms of red (their hypernym), which is, in turn, a hyponym of colour.
Hypernymy is the semantic relation in which one word is the hypernym of another. Hypernymy, the relation words stand in when their extensions stand in the relation of class to subclass, should not be confused with holonymy which is the relation words stand in when the things that they denote stand in the relation of whole to part. A similar warning applies to hyponymy and meronymy.

Just for sharing!

See you!

Cecília

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