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Definitions: Patronymic |
PatronymicAdjective1. Of a patronymic name. Noun1. A name derived with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) from the name of your father or a paternal ancestor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "patronymic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nomenclature | Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For example in Russian a man named Ivan (John) whose father's name is Nikolai would be known as Ivan Nikolaevich or "Ivan, son of Nikolai" (Nikolaevich as patronymic). In women the ending is -evna or -ovna.
In Scandinavian languages, the patronymic was formed by using the ending -son (later -sen in Danish) to indicate "son of", and -dotter (Icelandic -dóttir) for "daughter of". This name was generally used as a last name although a third name, a so-called byname based on location or personal charateristic was often added to differentiate people.
In Dutch, the endings -s and -sen, for son, was used for sons and often for daughters, too. The Dutch sometimes used -dochter or -dr for daughters.
In Romanian, the endings -escu and -eanu were used, like Petrescu - son of Petre (Peter), many of the current Romanian family names were formed like this.
In many areas patronymics predate the use of surnames. They are still used in Iceland - along with the less common matronymics - where few people have surnames. Many English, Welsh and Scandinavian surnames originate from patronymics, eg. Wilson (son of William), Powell (ap Howell), Johansson (son of Johan), Eriksen (son of Erik).
See: Icelandic names
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Patronymic."
Crosswords: Patronymic |
| English words defined with "patronymic": Patronymical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "patronymic": Barjesus, Bar-jesus, Briseis ♦ Kingly Titles. (references) |
| "Patronymic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Patronymic" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
patronymic | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "patronymic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | patronim, emër i rrjedhur nga emri i babait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أسم الأب أو الأسرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бащино име (maiden name), бащин (paternal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پدری (Paternal), پدرنامی , مشتق ازنام پدر, نام خانوادگی (Surname). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | patronyme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | patronymisch, patronymikon, vatersname. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πατρωνυμικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | patronimikon, nemzetségnév, apai név, apa nevéből képzett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | patronimico (surname). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shennayragh (ancestral), ennym shennayragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atronymicpay proteger (act as patron, arm, bank, befriend, come over, convoy, cover, defend, Favor, favour, friend at court, guard, harbor master, harbour master, help screen, indemnify, nurse, preserve, protect, safeguard, save, secure, sheathe, shelter, shield, unrein). (various references) patronimic, nume patronimic, nume (appellation, denomination, fame, name, noun, style, surname). (various references) отчество (patronymic name). (various references) sloinneadh (surname). (various references) patronimik. (various references) patronímico. (various references) patronymikon, familjenamn (cognomen, family name, surname). (various references) soyadı (family name, last name, surname), lakap (agnomen, cognomen, epithet, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, surname), aile adı. (various references) родове ім'я, патронімічний (patronal, patronymical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "patronymic": patronymics. (additional references) | |
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"Patronymic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paltronieri, paronymic, patronum, patronym, patrynomic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "patronymic" (pronounced pa'truni"mik) |
| 4 | -i" m i k | bulimic, gimmick, mimic. |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, monatomic, nonacademic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, systemic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: importancy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: patrimony. | |
-2 letters: acrimony, caryotin, impactor, minatory, protamin, romantic, tympanic. | |
-3 letters: acronym, apomict, apricot, aprotic, atropin, campion, cantrip, caption, carotin, company, compart, crampit, crampon, cyprian, maintop, mantric, minorca, opacity, paction, paronym, parotic, potamic, primacy, ptomain, rampion, tampion, timpano, topiary, tympani, tympano, tyronic. | |
-4 letters: action, anomic, aortic, armpit, aroint, aroynt, atomic, atonic, atopic, atypic, cairny, camion, canopy, cantor, captor, carton, cartop, cation, catnip, citron, comity, contra, cortin, craton, crayon, crimpy, crypto, impact, impart, import, macron, manioc, manito, mantic, martin, matron, micron, myopia, myopic, myotic, myrica, notary, optima, painty, pantry, parity, parton, patron, paynim, picaro, piracy, pitman, pointy, potman, ration, tampon, tarpon, tropic, tropin, tympan. | |
-5 letters: acorn, actin, actor, amino, amity, amnic, amnio, amort, anomy, antic, aport, apron, atomy, atony, atopy, atrip, cairn, campi, campo, campy, canto, canty, capon, carny, carom, carpi, coapt, coati, compt, copra, coria, corny, cotan, cramp, crimp, crony, crypt, cyano, cymar, cyton, inapt, inarm, intro, irony, macon, macro, manic, manor, matin, mayor, micra, micro, mincy, minor, minty, moira, moray, narco, naric, nitro, noria, octan, ontic, optic, orcin, orpin, paint, panic, panto, panty, party, patin, patio, payor, piano, picot, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, porny, pricy, prima, primo, print, prion, pyran, pyric, racon, rainy, ratio, rayon, riant, roman, tapir, taroc, toman, tonic, topic, toric, train, tramp, triac, tromp, trona, tryma, typic, yapon, yonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: patronymics. | |
+2 letters: actinomorphy, intercompany, intracompany. | |
+3 letters: complimentary, hyperromantic. | |
+4 letters: cinematography, contemporarily. | |
+5 letters: complementarily, complementarity, complimentarily, contemporaneity, incomparability, psychometrician, uncomplimentary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 72 6F 6E 79 6D 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110 01111001 01101101 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t r o n y m i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0072 006F 006E 0079 006D 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678684818091797569 |
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