Category:Streets by denominative
From Pittsburgh Streets
According to Adrian Room, a street or road name is formally called a hodonym (from the Greek hodos, 'way, road, street'), and the part of the name like street, avenue, boulevard, way, or road is called a denominative.[1]
The subcategories below organize the thoroughfares of Pittsburgh by their denominatives.
References
- ↑ Adrian Room. An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies, pp. 49–50. Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., 1996, ISBN 0-8108-3169-4. LCCN 96-33729. [view source] room
Subcategories
This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
- Thoroughfares with no denominative (8 pages)
A
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "alley" (145 pages)
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "avenue" (356 pages)
B
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "boulevard" (24 pages)
C
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "circle" (5 pages)
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "court" (4 pages)
D
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "drive" (9 pages)
E
G
H
L
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "lane" (27 pages)
M
P
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "place" (49 pages)
R
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "road" (66 pages)
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "rue" (2 pages)
S
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "square" (7 pages)
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "street" (1364 pages)
T
W
- Thoroughfares with the denominative "way" (268 pages)
