Patronym

Word PATRONYM
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈpætɹəʊnɪm/

Definitions and meanings of "Patronym"

What do we mean by patronym?

The name of someone's father.

A patronymic surname.

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The word "patronym" in example sentences

Rhinopithecus strykeri is a patronym honouring Jon Stryker, founder of the Arcus Foundation, that supports primate conservation and funded the species survey that resulted in the discovery of the species. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“I think she's added muscle tone dragging around the big patronym.” ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aleθnas is marked in the genitive to mark it as a patronym from the father's line. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hans: Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to her daughter, Dr. Mariassa Bat-Miriam Katsenelson, Yokheved Bat-Miriam intentionally changed her last name from a patronym (Zhelezniak) to a matronym, Bat-Miriam, “because she saw herself as the daughter of that same Miriam, the sister of Moses, the first woman poet in Israel.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clynes theory of emotional “quarks” which comprise the atoms and molecules of our inner life is an intellectual license to rescind the historical construct of the person and replace it with something as beautiful and soulless as a downdraft whipping a lake surface into a frenzy … a phenomena without a patronym, or honor. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He told me that Iceland maintained two phone directories: A small one for people with family names, arranged alphabetically by surname, and a main directory for traditional patronyms, alphabetically by given name, and then broken down by patronym. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One had a traditional patronym (his name was Sigurðer Flossison, his father was Flossi Sigurðerson, and so they went for generations); the other had a "family name" (Borg). ❋ Unknown (2004)

I asked Oskar why he had a family name rather than a patronym, and he said that a great-grandfather had emigrated to France and started a business under the name Borg, which then became a family name when they returned to Iceland. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To honor him, I have taken his name as my patronym. ❋ Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- (1994)

He had broken it and it had given him the Lady's patronym, a name common in pre-Domination histories. ❋ Cook, Glen (1985)

Old John soon realised Agamemnon's fears of Mrs. Waddledot's selection, for, whether the patronym of the Norman invader was more in accordance with his own ideas of propriety, or was more readily suggestive to his mind of the infant heir, he was continually speaking of little master ❋ Various (N/A)

The doctor peered at me over his glasses, hesitated, and then revealed his patronym. ❋ Marion Polk Angellotti (1936)

Only a few noble families, especially in the islands, took the Catalan patronym. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

He ate in the Lotus and of its patronym, and was lulled into blissful peace with the other fortunate mariners. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

Without questioning that such it might be, -- for the Dutch scribes were gifted in remarkable distortions of simple names, even of their own people, -- they evidently had no hand in thus maltreating the patronym of William Mullens (or Mullins) of the Pilgrims, for not only is evidence entirely wanting to show that he was ever a Leyden citizen, though made such by the fertile fiction of Mrs. Austin, but Governor ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

Curiously enough his name, hitherto hastily assumed to be equivalent to Elias of Durham, has probably no connection with that city; whether, however, his patronym should be traced to the Norfolk ❋ Gleeson White (1874)

On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the family divided, the Loyalists changing their patronym to Secord by placing the prefix "d" at the end of their name. ❋ Sarah Anne Curzon (1865)

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