When two elements or individuals have the same name, they are homonymous.
Homonym is an adjective that refers to two or more people or things that have the same name . The term comes from the Latin homonymus , which in turn has its origins in a Greek word.
Starting from this meaning we also have to emphasize that homonym, therefore, acts as a synonym for namesake . Thus, both one term and the other are used to make it clear that there are two or more people who have a common link: they share the name.
For example: "The Argentine team River Plate must face its namesake from Uruguay." This phrase refers to a hypothetical confrontation between Club Atlético River Plate of Argentina , which is based in Buenos Aires, and Club Atlético River Plate of Uruguay , based in Montevideo. Both clubs are homonymous since they share the same name.
Another example: "Foo Fighters have debuted with a self-titled album." In this case, the American rock group Foo Fighters named their first album with the band's name ( "Foo Fighters" ). The band and the album in question, therefore, are homonymous.
Homonyms in cinema
In this sense, it must be said that in the world of cinema the term that concerns us now is used very frequently. Thus, when a story that has previously been presented in a literary work is brought to the big screen, it is said that the film is based on the novel of the same name.
A clear example of this is the following: Tom Hanks stars in the film "The Da Vinci Code", which is the film adaptation of the book of the same name written in 2003 by the American Dan Brown .
The first Foo Fighters album was named after the band: the group and the album are therefore homonymous.
Different types
Homonyms are words that are spelled the same but mean different things. "Don" is one of them. It can be used in sentences such as "Don Carlos gave me ten pesos" or "Miguel does not have the gift of humility."
Homophone homonyms , on the other hand, are words that coincide from a phonological point of view and may or may not be homographs: "María had an accident and will not be able to come to work," "María was hit by a pipe and will not be able to come to work." work" .
Homophony is, therefore, what determines that two homonymous words are pronounced the same but are written differently.
All this without forgetting that dialectal homophony also exists. This occurs in certain corners of the Spanish and Latin American geography and occurs as a result of the people in these places carrying out actions such as lisping or lisping. Thus, for example, in some provinces of Andalusia "caza" is pronounced for both the word hunting and the word house .
Partial homonyms are words that differ both in their meaning and in their grammatical category, while absolute homonyms share a grammatical category but are differentiated in their meaning.
Sometimes the homonymous term is often confused with the polysemous term. But the differentiation is very clear. And, while homonymous words have a different etymological origin from each other, in the case of polysemous words it must be emphasized that they have the same origin.