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παρονομ-άζω ,
A.call with a slight change of name, Str.13.1.45 :— Pass., have one's name slightly changed, Id.6.1.15 ; “Ἀκτικὴν τὴν νῦν Ἀττικὴν παρονομασθεῖσαν” Id.9.1.3.
2.form a derived name, “τὰ μὲν καινὰ ἔθεσαν, τὰ δὲ παρωνόμασαν” Id.11.11.5, cf. Demetr.Eloc.97 :— Pass., to be named after, “παρωνομασμένον ἀπό τινος” D.S.2.4, cf. Str.11.2.15 ; to be derived, “ἔκ τινος” Plu. Cic.17 ; “παρά τι” A.D.Adv.148.11 ; “ἔν τισι” Id.Pron.3.17 ; “ἀπό τινος” Plot.6.1.9 ; but διὰ τὸ παρωνομάσθαι because of the employment of “παρονομασία” 11.2, Hermog.Id. 2.5.
II. τῇ Τύχῃ τὴν ἀνδρείαν παρωνόμασεν added the epithet 'virilis' to 'Fortuna', Plu.2.318f.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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