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patronym

[ pa-truh-nim ]

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Word History and Origins

Origin of patronym1

First recorded in 1825–35, patronym is from the Greek word patrṓnymos (adj.) patronymic. See patri-, -onym
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Example Sentences

Not her husband’s child — her husband is in America, working — but a child without a patronym, a child who represents not so much her own disgrace as some dark and profound disequilibrium that threatens everyone.

Etymology.—A patronym for the collector of the type specimens.

He rearranged the first two letters of “patronym” to produce a coinage for a name that is apt.

Only a few noble families, especially in the islands, took the Catalan patronym.

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.

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