andronym

Definition

A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.

Etymology

From andro- + -onym. First attested around 1906.

Example Sentences

• "A woman joins her husbands patrigroup at marriage; she acquires her husbands surname and andronym, and is treated as the bride of the patrigroup in village usage."
• "[S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription."
• "There are similar analogies in the Latin andronym Nero or the Lithuanian Nerijus, based on ‘male’ or ‘man’, but also VIRONIUS, and the more frequent VIRONUS, or possibly even VIRIUS and VIROTI, all of which are well documented in the Iberian peninsula"