Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The branch of study which is concerned with personal names and their origins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
branch ofknowledge that deals withpersonal names and their origin; the study ofpatronymics .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek for "father" + English onomatology.
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