单词 | patronymic |
释义 | patronymicn.adj. A. n. 1. A name derived from that of a father or male ancestor, esp. by addition of an affix indicating such descent; a family name. Also: an affix used to form such a name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > surname > patronymic sirename1542 patronymic1612 patronym1834 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. Illustr. 132 To some of these, other Patronymiques are giuen. a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. ii. iii, in Wks. (1640) III When the proper name is used to note ones parentage, which kind of Nounes the Grammarians call Patronimicks. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Patronymicks, those names which men derive from their fathers or ancestours with some little addition, as Aeneades from Aeneas. 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 176 He [sc. Macrobius] observes the same Obscurity in his [sc. Virgil's] Patronymics. 1772 J. Dyson in M. Akenside Poems 366 (note) The Naiads of particular rivers are occasionally..called by a patronymic, from the name of the river to which they belong. 1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 582 Two of its collateral branches, distinguished by the patronymics, the Cauravas and the Pauravas. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 134 There is a list of the Pictish kings... Half of them have the Celtic patronymic Mac prefixed—Mac, id est, filius. 1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. x Their original patronymic is MacAlpine. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 563 Glæstingabyrig, a genuine patronymic, has been corrupted into Glastonbury. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan ii. 21 His name was Sven Anderssen, his one pride being that his patronymic was spelled with a double ‘s’. 1959 A. G. Woodhead Study Greek Inscriptions 44 Sometimes the single name, without further elaboration, sometimes with patronymic and demotic or ethnic, or with one of the two. 1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue xiii. 200 Most surnames come ultimately, if not always obviously from one of four sources: place-names..nicknames..trade names..and patronymics. 2. Taxonomy. A Latin name based on the name of a person or persons. ΚΠ 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 193/2 The two specimens..are still on exhibition under the patronymic given to it more than half a century ago by Ord, i.e., Majama montana. 1910 Science 15 Sept. 381/1 In the revised edition of this code it is provided that masculine singular patronymics in the genitive singular are always to end in a single i. 1952 Q. Rev. Biol. 27 217/1 This [sc. the provision of name derivations] is useful and interesting, but would appear to be superfluous in the case of patronymics (viz., ‘gertschi,’ ‘mulaiki,’ ‘morrisi,’ etc.). 1981 Q. Rev. Biol. 56 492/1 I do find the explanation of Elysia hedgpethi as ‘Hedgpeth's elysium’ pleasing, although misleading, as many patronymics named for collectors or dispatchers of specimens are. B. adj. Of a personal or family name: derived from the name of a father or male ancestor, esp. by addition of an affix indicating such descent. Also: designating an affix used to form a patronymic; of or relating to a patronymic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > relating to a surname > patronymic patronymical1616 patronymic1669 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xi. 59 Abraham..was called an Hebrew; by which Patronymic name, he and his Posteritie were distinguished. 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 164 She will not allow that Ἀσιω can be a Patronymic Adjective. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1937) I. i. 41 He must have taken care in pronouncing Barak, with the brogue upon his tongue, he did not make it Burke; for that is a patronimic name of his country. 1818 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 38 They proposed, says Mad. de Stael, that the names of estates, which noble families had borne for ages, should be renounced, and the patronymic appellations resumed. 1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) vii. 301 It is sometimes patronymic, that is to say, it was the name of a family from a common ancestor. 1894 O. F. Emerson Hist. Eng. Lang. ix. 157 The English patronymic suffix corresponding to the Danish -son is -ing. 1920 R. Macaulay Potterism iii. ii. 136 Arthur Gideon, on coming of age, had reverted to his patronymic name, enamoured, it seemed, of his origin. 1983 Man 18 223 They continue to control their tribal territory, to maintain patronymic groups and a Bedouin ethnic identity. 2003 Business Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 2 In the patronymic bin and binti which follows the Malays' given name lies more than just the function of a linguistic connector. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1612 |
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