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patronym
[ pa-truh-nim ]
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Not her husband’s child — her husband is in America, working — but a child without a patronym, a child who represents not so much her own disgrace as some dark and profound disequilibrium that threatens everyone.
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Etymology.—A patronym for the collector of the type specimens.
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He rearranged the first two letters of “patronym” to produce a coinage for a name that is apt.
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Only a few noble families, especially in the islands, took the Catalan patronym.
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On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the family divided, the Loyalists changing their patronym to Secord by placing the prefix "d" at the end of their name.
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