#autodenumire

• Self-naming — The act of self-naming and its result; a name, title, or designation that a community, ethnic group, organization, or computer system assigns to itself in a sovereign and autonomous manner. In ethnography, it represents the endonym borne by a people in their own language, as opposed to the exonym used by outsiders.
• Autonym — The name that a linguistic, ethnic, or cultural community assigns to itself in its own language, as opposed to an exonym (the name given by outsiders); a word used self-referentially to designate its own structural entity. In linguistics, it also describes the use of a term to represent itself from a formal standpoint, rather than to denote the real-world object or concept it typically signifies.