English
Noun
andronym
- The name of the husband, taken on by the wife.
- A male name adopted by a woman.
See also
patronym
Quotations
1991: 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. � Michael Herzfeld in Silence, Submission and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood, in Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece ISBN 0691028591, page 89.
1999: [S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription. — review of Johanna Fabricius, Die hellenistischen Totenmahlreliefs. Grabrepräsentation und Wertvorstellungen in ostgriechischen Städten. by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.11.26
2000 (?): There are similar analogies in the Latin andronym Nero or the Lithuanian Nerijus, based on â��maleâ�� or â��manâ��, but also VIRONIUS, and the more frequent VIRONUS, or possibly even VIRIUS and VIROTI, all of which are well documented in the Iberian peninsula — Ballester X., Quinn R. in a footnote in L E CUNICULUS ‘RABBIT’ — A CELTIC ETYMOLOGY kovniklo, World Rabbit Science 10 (3), 125-129
2001: 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 — K. K. Ruthven, in Faking Literature ISBN 0521669650, page 179.
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