单词 | agnominal |
释义 | agnominaladj. Of, relating to, or of the nature of an agnomen. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > relating to additional name or nickname agnominal1652 sobriquetical1875 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 233 He..had..his proper name affected with the agnominal addition of the word parresiastes. 1838 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 50 537 Alibert regarded it [sc. Porrigo lupinosa conferta] as essentially the same as Porrigo lupinosa; and the author who follows this view proposes, as a distinctive name, the agnominal epithet conferta. 1888 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 120/2 Crawley, Newcome, Waverley, all these might be ordinary patronymics, with no agnominal appropriateness to the individual at all. 1917 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel I. xii. 454 Nicolas [Edme] Restif being apparently his baptismal name, and ‘de la Bretonne’ merely one of the self-bestowed agnominal flourishes so common in the French eighteenth century. 2008 K. B. Stern Inscribing Death & Devotion iii. 126 The agnomen designated a person's used name, as opposed to their given name through the structure ‘X qui et Y’... This agnominal structure differs from the use of the signa, or nick-name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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