byname
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From by- + name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪˌneɪm/
Noun
[edit]byname (plural bynames)
- (archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
- (archaic, historical) A nickname.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
- (Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]surname
nickname
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Verb
[edit]byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)
- (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.
References
[edit]- “byname”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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