Aptronym vs Patronym - What's the difference?
aptronym | patronym |
A name that is aptly suited to its owner.
* and Héliane Ventura, editors, Image et Récit , , ISBN 2878540530, page 82 [http://google.com/books?id=yKi_z2XYb00C&pg=PA82&dq=aptronym]:
* 2000 , Lorna Fitzsimmons, “Of ‘Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower’: Gyno-Turning in Limit Up'' and Svankmajer’s ''Faust''”, chapter 12 of Wendy Everett (editor), ''The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity , Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-420-1494-7,
* Peter Cosgrove, "History and Utopia in Ormond''", in, 2004, Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske, editors, ''An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts , , ISBN 0874138787 page 77 [http://google.com/books?id=HL0MH3x0ODUC&pg=PA77&dq=aptronym]:
As nouns the difference between aptronym and patronym
is that aptronym is a name that is aptly suited to its owner while patronym is (lb) patronym.aptronym
English
Noun
(en noun)- Speck also turns out to be a shopkeeper whose small-town mentality finds a reflection in his aptronym : "Speck" in German meaning bacon, he is the local butcher concerned with selling his merchandise regardless of its real quality.
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- This contradiction is condensed within the aptronym Casey Falls: her first name recalls Jim Casy, the preacher who is sacrificed helping migrant workers in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath , while her surname evokes Eve and the Fall.
- The latter after marrying Sir Ulick's steward becomes Mrs. M'Crule, an aptronym expressing her excessive bigotry in preventing the Catholic boy, Tommy Dunshaughlin, from attending a charity school.