单词 | patronym |
释义 | patronym (once / 17854 pages) n WORD FAMILY patronym: patronymic+/patronymic: patronymically, patronymics USAGE EXAMPLESPatronym′ic, a name taken from one's father or ancestor. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012) Etymology.—A patronym for the collector of the type specimens. Lynch, John D., A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptoda...(2011) He rearranged the first two letters of “patronym” to produce a coinage for a name that is apt. New York Times(Sep 01, 2011) n a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) Syn|Hyper patronymic name a language unit by which a person or thing is known |
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