Andronym

Quick meaning: Andronym is a noun meaning A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The name of the husband, taken on by the wife.
2. A male name adopted by a woman.

Example Sentences

[S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription.

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.

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

Critical of Loti's sexist exploitation of women in his serial performances as an "Orientalist" writer, Marie Léra (writing under the andronym of 'Marc Hélys') persuaded a couple of friends she visited in Constantinople to join her in masquerading as veiled Turkish women when meeting the novelist

Word Forms

• andronyms

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Related dictionary entries include idionym, metronymic, dionym, metronym, orthonym, mononym.

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