单词 | metronymic |
释义 | metronymicn.adj. A. n. A personal or family name derived from that of a mother or other female ancestor; = matronymic n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific types or forms of lowa1387 primitive1838 pre-revolution1860 metronymic1868 pre-feudal1870 prelogical1880 polyzoic1886 pre-agricultural1898 pre-civil1902 pre-feudalic1907 subcultural1909 protocultural1920 pre-independencea1922 apparented1934 sensate1937 patrimonial1946 non-literate1948 inner-directed1950 underground1953 pop-cultural1963 technopolitan1965 the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > surname > matronymic matronymic1794 metronymic1868 metronym1904 1868 J. B. Lightfoot Epist. Philippians (1873) 55 In not a few instances a metronymic takes the place of the usual patronymic. 1904 J. A. Nairn Herodas 9 It is noticeable that Gryllos has a metronymic, not a patronymic. 1978 Norfolk Archaeol. 27 67 A metronymic derived from the Greco-Latin Ismena. B. adj. Chiefly Sociology = matrilineal adj.; spec. designating a name derived from a mother or female ancestor. Cf. matronymic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > relating to a surname > matronymic matronymic1874 tecnonymous1888 metronymic1896 1896 F. H. Giddings Princ. Sociol. 158 In a metronymic group all relationships are traced through mothers; paternal relationships are ignored. 1902 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 17 85 The children remain with the mother group, and thus arises the metronymic system of kinship and the metronymic clan. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 8 The path of development towards a civil organization of society..has lain in the transition from the loosely knit, even segregative, metronymic group to the more compact and more powerful patronymic group. 1928 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 38 483 The principal thesis of the book is that the Hebrew family originally was metronymic and later became patronymic. 1944 H. P. Fairchild Dict. Sociol. 192/2 Metronymic, deriving the personal or family name from the mother or other matrilineal relative. 1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 521/2 System, metronymic, tracing kinship exclusively through the mother. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1868 |
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