I.the bringing together two words different in meaning, but similar in sound, paronomasia, a rhet. fig., = παρονομασία: veniit a te antequam Romam venit. Hunc ăvium dulcedo ducit ad āvium. Si lenones tamquam leones vitāsset. Videte judices, utrum homini navo an vano credere malitis, etc., Auct. ad Her. 4, 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 66.
agnōmĭnātĭo (adn- ), ōnis, f.,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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