metonimia
Spanish, noun/metoˈnimja/
metonimia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “metonymy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tropo que designa una cosa con el nombre de otra con la que guarda una relación de causa efecto, de autor a…”.
What does metonimia mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tropo que designa una cosa con el nombre de otra con la que guarda una relación de causa efecto, de autor a obra, o de algún otro tipo de contigüidad temporal, causal o espacial.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of metonimia
- metonimias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metonimia?
- /metoˈnimja/
- [me.t̪oˈni.mja]
- [met̪oˈnimja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metonimia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metonimia in Spanish?
metonimia appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).