Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A paternal name; a name derived from one's father or from one's ancestors in the male line.
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- noun The
name of someone'sfather . - noun A
patronymic surname .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I think she's added muscle tone dragging around the big patronym.”
Thoughts on High Culture: Opening Night at the Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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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.
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Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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Aleθnas is marked in the genitive to mark it as a patronym from the father's line.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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Hans: Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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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.”
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Aleθnas is marked in the genitive to mark it as a patronym from the father's line.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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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.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Steve Mann on Cyborg Communities: Comments Wanted 2002
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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.
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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).
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