Technicality of the semantics of Greek etymology, hyper, envelope, above and onomatous onoma, name. Logical-linguistic category that includes within itself others of a lower hierarchical order. When we classify reality we tend to sort it descending from the general or universal to the particular as logicists or botanists do in their taxonomies. The terms above are hyperonycons compared to those below that are hyponimos, (from hypo, below). In the scientific nomenclature of botanists, for example, the generic name is hyperonym and the specific hyponym.
