Synonyms

autonym

American

[aw-tuh-nim] / ˈɔ tə nɪm /

noun

Also called endonym. Anthropology. the name that an ethnic, racial, or social group uses for itself or its language.

“Inuit” is the autonym for a large subgroup of Indigenous Arctic peoples.
a person's real name.

To all who replied to my post—if you send me your autonyms by email I'll gladly acknowledge your help in my upcoming article.
a book published under the real name of the author.
Biology. a trinomial of a subspecies of animal or variety of plant whose final epithet repeats the species name, as in Homo sapiens sapiens (modern human) or Pinus nigra nigra (European black pine): automatically created for the original type the first time another subspecies is named.

First recorded in 1865–70; aut- + -onym

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