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matronymic|mætrəʊˈnɪmɪk|
[Hybrid f. L. mātr-, māter mother, after patronymic. Cf. It. matronimico.]
A. adj. = metronymic a.
1874I. Taylor Etrusc. Res. 224 The Etruscan matronymic suffix is occasionally -nal instead of -al.
B. n. = metronymic n.
1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. II. 45 Men..were..named..sometimes by matronymics, as Anson, Nelson, &c. 1817Colebrooke Algebra 30 note, Arjuna, surnamed Párt'ha: his matronymic from Prĭt'há. 1888G. de Berneval in N. & Q. 7 Jan. 14/1 The Spanish custom of appending the matronymic.
b. A metronymic suffix.
1874I. Taylor Etrusc. Res. 223 Aul, a form which may exactly represent the sound of the Etruscan matronymic -al.
So † matroˈnymical a. (in quot. app. misused in the sense of ‘vernacular’).
c1640J. Smyth Hundred of Berkeley (1885) 35 [There is] a little meade called Riam, whither on Sunday next after Whitsunday resorted the youthes of both sexes..a day known in all the quarters thereabouts by the matronimicall name of Riam-mead Sunday. |