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surname
English
Alternative forms
- sirname
Etymology
From Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supern?men, supr?n?men (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and n?men (“name”)..
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: sûr'n?m, IPA(key): /?s?ne?m/
- (UK) enPR: sû'n?m, IPA(key): /?s??ne?m/
Noun
surname (plural surnames)
- (obsolete) An additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet.
- 1526, Tyndale's Bible, Acts 1:23:
- Barsabas (whose syrname was Iustus).
- 1590, Richard Harvey, Plaine Percevall the peace-maker of England, Sweetly indeuoring with his blunt persuasions to botch vp a reconciliation between Mar-ton and Mar-tother, B3:
- My sirname is Peace-Maker, one that is but poorely regarded in England.
- 1526, Tyndale's Bible, Acts 1:23:
- (obsolete) An additional name given to a person, place, or thing; a byname or nickname.
- 1638, Abraham Cowley, Davideis, IV:
- I have before declared that Baal was the Sun, and Baal Peor, a sirname, from a particular place of his worship.
- 1638, Abraham Cowley, Davideis, IV:
- The name a person shares with other members of that person's family, distinguished from that person's given name or names; a family name.
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines, I 32:
- In late yeeres Surnames have beene given for Christian names among vs, and no where else in Christendom.
- 1876, E. A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest, V xxv 563:
- The Norman Conquest...brought with it the novelty of family nomenclature, that is to say, the use of hereditary surnames.
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines, I 32:
- (Classical studies) The cognomen of Roman names.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A clan.
- 1455 in J. D. Marwick, Charters of Edinburgh (1871), 79:
- The surnam and nerrest of blude to the said Williame.
- 1455 in J. D. Marwick, Charters of Edinburgh (1871), 79:
Usage notes
The term "surname" may be used to translate terms from non-English names which carry additional shades of meaning, most notably in the case of Roman cognomens. In fact, the nomen was the surname as the word is commonly understood today but the terms were first applied when surname was still used in the sense of "additional" or "added" name: the cognomen was added to the nomen to show the branch of the family involved. (The modern translation of a similar distinction in ancient Chinese names customarily uses ancestral name and clan name instead and typically speaks of surnames only once the two merged into a single and commonly-employed family name.)
Synonyms
- epithet (additional descriptive name)
- nickname, sobriquet, byname (additional name)
- family name, last name, to-name (hereditary name denoting one's family)
- See also Thesaurus:surname
Hypernyms
- name
Translations
Verb
surname (third-person singular simple present surnames, present participle surnaming, simple past and past participle surnamed)
- (transitive) To give a surname to.
- (transitive) To call by a surname.
Translations
See also
- adoption name
- bride’s name
- Christian name
- cognomen
- confirmation name
- family name
- first name
- forename
- given name
- last name
- maiden name
- matronym
- middle name
- nickname
- patronym
- personal name
- Wikipedia article on name changes
- Wiktionary appendix of surnames
References
Anagrams
- Mansure, manures
Middle English
Alternative forms
- surename, sourname, sorname, syrname, sire name
Etymology
Partial calque of Old French surnoun, from Late Latin supern?men, supr?n?men; equivalent to sur- +? name. Forms beginning with sir-, syr-, etc. represent reanalysis of the first element as sire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?surna?m(?)/, /?sirna?m(?)/
Noun
surname (plural surnames)
- epithet, nickname
- c. 1330, Arthour and Merlin, 5488:
- Þe .xxxix. Osoman, cert, His surname was: hardi of hert.
- c. 1400, "St. John Baptist", 928 in W. M. Metcalfe, Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century (1896), II 249:
- Þe thred herrod had alsua til his suornome agrippa.
- c. 1330, Arthour and Merlin, 5488:
- surname, family name
- 1393, William Langland, Piers Plowman, C iv 369:
- Þat is no?t reisonable...to refusy my syres sorname.
- 1393, William Langland, Piers Plowman, C iv 369:
- alias, appellation
- c. 1395, Wycliff's Bible, Ecclus. XLVII 19:
- In the name of the Lord, to whom the surname [toname in the 1382 ed.] is God of Israel.
- c. 1395, Wycliff's Bible, Ecclus. XLVII 19:
Descendants
- English: surname
References
- “surn?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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barnes
Middle English
Noun
barnes
- plural of barn (“child”)
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