Engelsk-Svensk oversettelse av metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, ""Washington"", as the capital of the United States, can be used as a metonym (an instance of metonymy) for the United States government. The words ""metonymy"" and ""metonym"" come from the Greek: ?????????, met?nymía, ""a change of name"", from ????, metá, ""after, beyond"" and -??????, -?nymía, a suffix used to name figures of speech, from ?????, ónyma or ?????, ónoma, ""name.