Surname vs Saunders - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) An additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet.
* Arthour and Merlin , 5488:
* 1526 , (w, Tyndale's Bible), Acts I 23:
* 1590 , Richard Harvey, Plaine Percevall the peace-maker of England, Sweetly indeuoring with his blunt persuasions to botch vp a reconciliation between Mar-ton and Mar-tother , B3:
* (William Shakespeare), (Coriolanus) , V iii 171:
(obsolete) An additional name given to a person, place, or thing; a byname or nickname.
* (w, Wycliff's Bible), Ecclus. XLVII 19:
* 1638 , Abraham Cowley, (Davideis) , IV:
The name a person shares with other members of that person's family, distinguished from that person's given name or names; a family name.
* 1393 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) , C iv 369:
* 1605 , William Camden, Remaines , I 32:
* 1876 , E. A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest , V xxv 563:
(Classical studies) The cognomen of Roman names.
* "St. John Baptist", 928 in W. M. Metcalfe, Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century (1896), II 249:
(Scottish, obsolete) A clan.
* 1455 in J. D. Marwick, Charters of Edinburgh (1871), 79:
To give a surname .
To call by a surname .
An English and Scottish patronymic surname derived from an old form of Alexander.
English surnames from given names
As nouns the difference between surname and saunders
is that surname is (obsolete) an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet while saunders is sandalwood.As a verb surname
is to give a surname .surname
English
Noun
(en noun)- Þe]] Osoman, cert, His surname was: hardi of [[heart, hert.
- Barsabas (whose syrname was Iustus).
- My sirname is Peace-Maker, one that is but poorely regarded in England.
- To his sur-name Coriolanus longs]] more pride
Then [[pity, pitty to our Prayers.
- In the name of the Lord, to whom the surname [toname in the 1382 ed.] is God of Israel.
- I have before declared that Baal was the Sun, and Baal Peor, a sirname , from a particular place of his worship.
- Þat]] is reisonable...to refusy my [[sire's, syres sorname .
- In late yeeres]] Surnames have beene given for Christian names among [[us, vs, and no where else in Christendom.
- The Norman Conquest...brought with it the novelty of family nomenclature, that is to say, the use of hereditary surnames .
- Þe]] thred herrod had [[also, alsua til his suornome agrippa.
- The surnam and nerrest]] of [[blood, blude to the said Williame.