patronym

[ US /ˌpætɹəˈnɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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)
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How To Use patronym In A Sentence

  • Although a government decree in 1856 ended patronymics, some 60 percent of all present day Danish names end in ‘sen’ with Jensen and Nielsen being the most common.
  • In the novel we do not learn Luzhin's patronymic until the last sentences.
  • Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics.
  • A Russian system of patronymics is still widely used.
  • It is interesting that their usual surnames are all patronymics or matronymics, rather than the locatives that would be more likely were any of the four from immigrant families.
  • Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen.
  • They were always smart and neatly dressed, and always called each other - in public - by their first name and patronymic.
  • I'd love to check out MacBeth, considering we sort of have the same name: MacVay in Gaelic is MacBheatha, same as his name (though his was a given name, not a patronymic, and we aren't related). Celebrating Scotland
  • However, she later explains that Adriaen did not use the patronymic.
  • I feel no allegiance or kinship to my slave names despite their being patronymic a name descended from the father. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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