The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homonymous
Homonymous \Ho*mon"y*mous\, a. [L. homonymus, Gr. ?; ? the same + ?, for ? name; akin to E. name.]
Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.
Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
homonymous
1620s, from Latin homonymus, from Greek homonymos "having the same name" (see homonym). Homonymy "quality of being homonymous" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
homonymous
a. 1 having the same name as another 2 of or pertaining to a homonym
Usage examples of "homonymous".
Much of Chinese numerology stemmed from the fact that Chinese, in all its varied dialects, was a homonymous language.