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patronomatology

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 of knowledge that deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Ancient Greek for "father" + English onomatology.

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