Meanings
- not comparablerareSynonym of anthroponymic
Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders.
2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 722 more examples
Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village.
2016, Order and Chivalry, page 53It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely.
2013, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396Synonyms: anthroponymic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of anthroponymic
Origin
From anthroponym + -ous. By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onym + -ous = anthropo- + -nym + -ous.
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