Definitions for onomasticon
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Princeton's WordNet
onomasticon(noun)
a list of proper nouns naming persons or places
Wiktionary
onomasticon(Noun)
A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
Origin: From (onomastikon), neuter form of (onomastikos) "belonging to names", from (onomazō) "I name", from (onoma) "name"
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