polyonymous

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The Word of the Day for June 11 is:

polyonymous   \pah-lee-ON-uh-muss\   adjective
     : having or known by various names

Example sentence:
     The police finally captured the polyonymous criminal when 
he tried to fly under the name "Elvis Presley."

Did you know?
     "Polyonymous" comes to us from Greek. The "poly-" part 
means "many," and the "-onymous" part derives from the Greek 
word "onoma" or "onyma," meaning "name" -- so a reasonable 
translation of "polyonymous" is, in fact, "having many names." 
There are a number of other descendants of "onoma" or "onyma" in 
English, including "anonymous" ("having no name"), "pseudonym" 
("false name"), "eponym" (someone who lends their name to 
something, or a word that comes from someone's name), 
and "patronymic" (a name taken from one's father). Even "name" 
itself is derived from the same ancient word that gave rise to 
the Greek "onyma," making it a distant cousin of all these name-
related words.