Sentence examples for patronym from inspiring English sources

André Cardinal was the son of a wealthy Parisian merchant, Etienne Cardinal, Seigneur des Touches et de Guilleville, but he did not take any form of the patronym until 1694, after which he was known as Destouches.

The term aptronym was allegedly coined by the American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams, by an anagrammatic reordering of the first letters of patronym (to suggest apt) to denote surnames that suit the occupation of the name's bearer (such as Baker for a baker).

My grandmother's family – the patronym is Castell – had a sumptuous chart alleging that the original "de Castelli" were Spanish aristocrats who "came over" – a marvellous phrase, worth a dozen coronets – with William the Conqueror.

As a way to deflect anti-Semitism, his ancestors, when they were living in Persia, had changed their name, Gedalea, to Reza, a common Persian patronym.

Div., of U.N., an expert on the orthography of Indian place names, surnames, patronyms, given names, and titles.

Claus's mother, Madeleine, is German, and he took her last name, she explained to me, because Spanish nomenclature (matronyms tacked onto patronyms) was too confusing for Gaspar's French elementary-school teachers.

But how well do you know your author patronyms?