homonyma
Homonyma is a term used in linguistics to refer to words that share the same form but have different meanings. In English, the standard term is homonym (plural homonyms), but in some languages or dictionaries the form homonyma is used as a direct counterpart. Broadly, a homonym can be any pair or group of words that look or sound the same while signaling different concepts.
Homonyms can be further classified by how they relate to spelling and pronunciation. Homographs are words that
These phenomena can create ambiguity in communication and are common sources of puns and wordplay. They also
Related concepts include polysemy, where a single word has related but distinct senses within one lexical item,