andronym

English

Etymology

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

Noun

andronym (plural andronyms)

1. A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.
2. The name of the husband, taken on by the wife.
   • 1991, Michael Herzfeld, “Silence, Submission and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood”, in Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece, →ISBN, page 89:

     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.

   • 1999, “review of Johanna Fabricius, Die hellenistischen Totenmahlreliefs. Grabrepräsentation und Wertvorstellungen in ostgriechischen Städten. by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway”, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review‎^[1]:

     [S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription.
3. A male name adopted by a woman.
   • 2001, K. K. Ruthven, Faking Literature, →ISBN, page 179:

     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

Translations

name

• Greek: ανδρωνυμικό (el) n (andronymikó)
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See also

• patronym

Anagrams

• Normandy, monandry