In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic range is included within that of another word. For example, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, and crimson are all hyponyms of red (their hypernym).

According to Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman's Introduction to Language (ISBN 003018682X), hyponyms are a set of related words whose meaning are specific instances of a more general word (so, for example, red, white, blue, etc., are hyponyms of color). Hyponymy is thus the relationship between a general term such as polygon and specific instances of it, such as triangle.

See also

• -onym
• Sub- and Subcategory
• Meronymy

Semantics

Hipònim | Hyponymie | Hipónimo | Hiponimo | Hyponymie | Hyponiem