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Contranyms go by other names such as antagonym and autoantonym. However, one of the words associated with a contranym is Janus word. Janus words get their name from the Roman God Janus.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Janus was the god of doorways and archways. Janus is represented by a double-faced head with or without a beard. At times to represent a four-way arch, he was depicted by a four-faced head.
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The percontation point was first suggested by Henry Denham, an English printer, in the late 1500s. It is also called the "rhetorical question mark." As the definition says it was intended to be used at the end of a rhetorical question. Unfortunately, it never caught on.
--Information courtesy Proofed.com
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Below are several other meanings for the word Phoenix (or Phenix).
- State capital of Arizona.
- A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.
- A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.
- Classical Mythology
- The brother of Cadmus and Europa, and eponymous ancestor of the Phoenicians.
- A son of Amyntor and Cleobule who became the foster father of Achilles and who fought with the Greek forces in he Trojan War.