patronymic's Usage Examples:

"The practice here is relatively simple patronymics, where a surname is derived from the first name of the father.

The name Kpoviwv, or KpovLSr)s, looks like a patronymic.

It is clear that in the original form of the tradition the name of the foundling was Scyld or Sceldwea, and that his cognomen'Scefing (derived from sceaf, a sheaf) was misinterpreted as a patronymic.

The tribe, clan and section are alike distinguished by patronymics formed from the name of the common ancestor by the addition of the word zai or khel; zai being a corruption of the Pushtu word zoe, meaning son, while khel is an Arabic word meaning an association or company.

"If so, Bartholomew is probably a patronymic, the apostle's full name being Nathanael Bartolmai, i.

Like Italian men of letters, these pioneers of humanism gave a classic turn to their patronymics; unfamiliar names, Crotus Rubeanus and Pierius Graecus, Capnion and Lupambulus Ganymedes, Oecolampadius and Melanchthon, resounded on the Rhine.

The statement of the scholiast is evidently a mere inference from the patronymic form of the word.

The race of Somerled continued to rule the islands, and from a younger son of the same potentate sprang the lords of Lorne, who took the patronymic of Macdougall.

In many cases indeed there is good reason for doubting whether the name is a patronymic at all.

The patronymic of the Montaigne family, who derived their title from the château at which the essayist was born and which had been bought by his grandfather, was Eyquem.

Of his parentage (apart from his patronymic) and education nothing is known.

But he altered this patronymic, for the sake of euphony, to Petrarca, proving by this slight change his emancipation from usages which, had he dwelt at Florence, would most probably have been imposed on him.

Synonyms:

patronym, name,

Antonyms:

disrepute,