autonym
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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a book published under the real name of the author.
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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.
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Autonym, aw′ton-im, n. a writing published under the author's real name.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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