Autonym
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Autonym may refer to
- Autonym, the name used by a people to refer to themselves or their language, synonymous with endonym
- Autonym, the true name of an author disclosed by resolving a pseudonymPseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
- Autonym (botany)Autonym (botany)In botanical nomenclature, autonyms are automatically created names, as regulated by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature . Autonyms are cited without an author. Relevant provisions are in articles 6.8, 22.1-3 and 26.1-3....
, an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name - Autological wordAutological wordAn autological wordis a word expressing a property which it also possesses itself...
which describes itself