anthroponym

English

Etymology

From anthrop- +‎ -onym or anthropo- +‎ -nym. First attested in 1955.

Pronunciation

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Noun

anthroponym (plural anthroponyms)

1. The name of a person, especially a surname.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Oksana Neher, Liudmyla Yursa, “THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY IN THE URBANONYMY OF UZHHOROD”, in ORBIS LINGUARUM, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, page 192:

     If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for secondary use. […] Therefore, concepts in commemorative urbanonymy form a ‘bundle’ of associations, ideas, and memories (comp. Stepanov, 2004), that appear in speakers as a reaction to these names, but at the same time speakers react primarily to the anthroponyms that form the basis of urbanonym units, and the street names themselves act only as ‘carriers’ of specific meaning, […]

Related terms

• anthroponymy
• anthroponymous

Translations

name of a person

• Albanian: antroponim (sq) m
• Catalan: antropònim (ca) m
• Czech: antroponymum n
• Finnish: henkilönnimi (fi)
• French: anthroponyme (fr)
• Georgian: ანთროპონიმი (antroṗonimi)
• German: Personenname (de), Anthroponym (de)
• Greek: ανθρωπωνύμιο (el) n (anthroponýmio)
• Italian: antroponimo (it) m
• Macedonian: антропоним m (antroponim)
• Polish: antroponim (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: antropônimo (pt) m

  European Portuguese: antropónimo (pt) m

• Russian: антропо́ним (ru) m (antropónim)
• Spanish: antropónimo (es) m
• Swedish: antroponym (sv) c, personnamn (sv)
• Udmurt: адяминим (aďamińim)
• Ukrainian: антропо́нім m (antropónim)

See also

• anthropotoponym

Further reading

• Anthroponymy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia