Sentence examples for patronymic from inspiring English sources

Gone was all that balderdash about the sacred mystique of the Russian state; journalists had his mobile number and called him Boris, without his patronymic.

In the first book of the Iliad, the son of Zeus and Leto (Apollo, line 9) is as instantly identifiable to the Greek reader by his patronymic as are the sons of Atreus (Agamemnon and Menelaus, line 16).

Michael was the first emperor to bear a family name, and his use of the patronymic, Rhangabe, bears witness to the emergence of the great families, whose accumulation of landed properties would soon threaten the integrity of those smallholders upon whom the empire depended for its taxes and its military service.

Sometimes a patronymic is simply the father's given name (Thomas, Edward) or its genitive form (Edwards).

The usual form of address in Russian among acquaintances, neighbours, colleagues at work, and inclusive superiors is by the given name and the patronymic.

In Russian, if the father's name is Ivan Krylov, then the son's name will be, for example, Pyotr (given) Ivanovich (patronymic) Krylov (family), and the daughter's name will be, for example, Varvara Ivanovna Krylova.

In some cultures the patronymic varies according to the sex of the child receiving it: in Russia, where everyone has a patronymic as well as a given name and surname, sons receive a patronymic ending in -ovich (e.g., Ivanovich) and daughters a form ending in -ovna (e.g., Ivanovna).

The Etruscans rarely used the cognomen (family nickname) employed by the Romans, but often inscriptions include the name of both the father (patronymic) and the mother (matronymic).