patronymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Neither of the two other Rodolfi in the oath can be Rodolfo di Andrea, it should he added, for they have other patronymies; and there are almost no other Rodolfi in the documents."
- "The practice of women taking their husbands' names has been critiqued but little discussion of the impact of patronymy on children has occurred."
- "Patronymy often reflects and reinforces a number of gender stereotypes. It is claimed that: By the rules of patronymy, therefore, the woman is symbolically compelled into a posture of existential derivation, dependence, and submission."
- "In what follows, I will argue that the ongoing legal and social tolerance of patronymy reinforces a monovocal notion of womanhood, thereby striking at the heart of women's right to liberty and unique personality."
- "Masculine patronymies commonly terminate in ides, which is added to the stem of the proper name— as Priamides, Cecropides (from Cecrops)."
- "In the Hanan (Ananus or Annas) family of high priests (first century CE) recurrent names are Hanan (Ananus), a patronymy repeated for three generations, and Matthias."
Etymology
From patr- + -onymy.