andronym
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4VERB + ANDRONYM
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ANDRONYM + NOUN
nero
PREP.
in, than
ADV.
often, rather
Definitions
noun
A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.
The name of the husband, taken on by the wife.
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.
A male name adopted by a woman.
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
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3A 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.
Wiktionary[S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription.
WiktionaryThere 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
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