patronymic

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1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπατήρ“father”
2. English todaypatronymic

From Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) (a variant form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”)). Also patronym + -ic, from patro- + -onym.

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