1. a name formed from the name of your father or a male ancestor, especially by adding something to the beginning or end of their name Compare : matronymicTopics
   Word Originearly 17th cent.: via late Latin from Greek patrōnumikos, from patrōnumos, from patÄ“r, patr- ‘father’ + onuma ‘name’.

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