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# patronymic

«patronymic» in Mova's school dictionary: **A name made from the name of your father or a male…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a patronymic, patronymics); adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) A name made from the name of your father or a male ancestor, like Johnson (son of John) or Ukrainian Ivanovych (son of Ivan). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#m1)

2) (adjective) Made from a father's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history, English and languages lessons on names: surnames like Robertson, Williams, O'Brien (Irish «Ó» = descendant), MacDonald (Scottish «Mac» = son), Jones (son of John) began as patronymics. In Ukrainian and Russian, people have a patronymic as a middle name, e.g. Ivanovych or Ivanivna. In Iceland, Björk Guðmundsdóttir means daughter of Guðmundur.

### examples

- Johnson is a patronymic surname meaning son of John. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x1)
- In Ukrainian, a patronymic is used in polite address, like Taras Hryhorovych. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x2)
- Icelandic people often use patronymics instead of family names. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x3)
- «Mac» in MacDonald works like a patronymic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x4)
- Our teacher explained that Fitzgerald means son of Gerald. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x5)
- A name from your mother is a matronymic, not a patronymic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/#x6)

### note

Countable. Pronounced «pa-truh-NIM-ik». From Greek «pater» (father) and «onoma» (name). The female form often has a different ending (Ukrainian -ivna for daughters, -ovych/-yovych for sons).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «patronymic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patronymic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.