
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὀνόµατ– ὄνοµα (name) + -ous
PRONUNCIATION
uh-NOM-uh-tuhss
EXAMPLE
“…For our own parts, we will not be forward to remove the disguise, and, indeed, in very many cases we should as a rule prefer the anonymous to the onomatous mode of addressing the public…”
From: The Spectator
A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art
Volume the Forty-Second, 1869