Patronymic in a sentence

In contrast to male names, if a woman is called by her patronymic name without a given name, the patronymic is usually not contracted: "Ivanovna" but "Mar' Ivanna"; "Sergeevna"/"Sergevna" is one exception, where both forms are fine.

Although surnames in mainland Greece are static today, dynamic and changing patronymic usage survives in middle names where the genitive of father's first name is commonly the middle name (this usage having been passed on to the Russians ).

Although there is a common misconception that "mac" means "son of", the "of" part actually comes from the genitive form of the patronymic that follows the prefix "Mac", e.g., in the case of MacNéill, Néill (of Neil) is the genitive form of Niall (Neil).

Another form widely used in the Arab world is the usage of both the patronymic and a family name, often using both the father's and paternal grandfathers given name in sequence after the own given name, and then the family name.

As in English, the new family names are sometimes based on what was formerly a patronymic.

Before that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries: his father was named Ingemarsson after his father Ingemar Bengtsson.

Blunt (2004), p. 13. Carl's patronymic would have been Nilsson, as in Carl Nilsson Linnæus.

English In England, names ending with the suffix "son" were often originally patronymic.

Ethiopia and Eritrea main The patronymic custom in most of the Horn of Africa gives children the father's first name as their surname.

Exceptionally, some end in -ou, indicating the genitive case of this proper noun for patronymic reasons.

He began adding the second surname (Saavedra, a name that did not correspond to his immediate family) to his patronymic in 1586–1587 in official documents related to his marriage to Catalina de Salazar.

He Russified his Jewish name David and patronymic Abelevich to Denis Arkadievich at some point after 1918.

However, not all names with similar endings are necessarily patronymic.

However, the patronymic is rather insignificant in everyday use and usually just given as an initial – Ts.

In Bulgarian official documents, the patronymic is inserted before the surname - e.g. Ivan Marinov Yordanov would be the son of Marin Yordanov.

In the east, however, the new citizens formulated their names by placing "Aurelius" before versions of their non-Roman given name and a patronymic.

In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ben- or bat- ("son of" and "daughter of", respectively), and then the father's name, mother's name, or both.

It comes from Latin Suaricius (son of Suarius); the Latin genitive suffix -icius/a was used to indicate a patronymic.

It could also be linked with a patronymic from the Old Norse verr.

It was his father, Owen Tudor ( Welsh Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Ednyfed Fychan main), who abandoned the Welsh patronymic naming practice and adopted a fixed surname.