Meronymy

Meronymy ( loan word from the Greek meros (ie part ) nymie ) ) is a term drawn from linguistics.

The meronymy (also: part-whole relationship) is a paradigmatic " hierarchical " semantic relation between lexemes ( words, terms ), which is based on that a lexeme refers to something that is part of another ( "whole" ), which of another lexeme is called. A lexeme is thus in the ratio of meronymy to another lexeme ( is meronym ) when its speaker is part of the speakers of the other lexeme.

Synonym speaks of a partitive relation or from a part-of relationship.

The inverse of this relation is called Holonymie

Instead of meronymy is often spoken of the part-whole relationship in German. They would be more accurate to a generic term for both the meronymy as well as the converse Holonymie.

The lexeme (the word ), which refers to the object that is part of, is called meronym, the lexeme of the whole Holonym.

Examples:

• Finger is meronym of hand. Hand is Holonym of fingers.
• Hubcap > car wheel > Auto Body Parts> Car
• Doorknob > Door > House (? > Settlement > District > City ... )

The part-whole relationship is the ratio of the hyponymy or Hyperonymie, ie the ratio of a to distinguish sub - a generic term.

In contrast, in the case of the Hyponymy meronymy rarely stage are skipped:

• • The house has a jack.

In the meronymy relation part-whole relationships of the physical world are in the foreground. In GermaNet the part-whole relationship is in accordance with " only for nouns coded " and part-whole relationships only with concrete facts are recorded.

A broader example would be:

• Case is part of declination.

In computer science, the term meronymy is referred to as aggregation and used as a modeling concept of knowledge and database applications.

In philosophy, the meronymy object of study of mereology.