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Homonymous

Homonymous

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Homonym.

The relationship between a set of homonyms is called homonymy, and the associated adjective is homonymous, homonymic, or in Latin, equivocal. Additionally, the adjective homonymous can be used wherever two items share the same name, independent of how closely they are related in terms of their meaning or etymology. For example, the English word once (meaning 'one time') is homonymous (homographic) with the term for 'eleven' in Spanish, once.