byname

See also: by-name and by name

English

Alternative forms

by-name

Etymology

From by- +‎ name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.

Noun

byname (plural bynames)

(archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
(archaic, historical) A nickname.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
(Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

name

Translations

surname

Bulgarian: презиме (bg) n (prezime)
Finnish: sukunimi (fi)
Macedonian: пре́зиме n (prézime)
Spanish: apellido (es) m
Swedish: släktnamn (sv) n, tillnamn (sv) n, (last name) efternamn (sv) n

nickname

Bulgarian: прякор (bg) m (prjakor)
Danish: tilnavn n
Finnish: liikanimi (fi)
Macedonian: пре́кар m (prékar)
Spanish: apodo (es) m, apelativo (es) m
Swedish: binamn (sv) n, tillnamn (sv) n

Verb

byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)

(transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.

References

“byname”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

baymen

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