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)

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

Synonyms

• cognomen
• sobriquet
• to-name

Hypernyms

• name

Translations

surname

• Bulgarian: презиме (bg) n (prezime)
• Finnish: sukunimi (fi)
• Macedonian: пре́зиме n (prézime)
• Ottoman Turkish: لقب (lakab)
• 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)
• Ottoman Turkish: لقب (lakab)
• 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)

1. (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.

References

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

Anagrams

• baymen