anthroponymous

anthroponymous

English

Etymology

anthroponym +‎ -ous

Adjective

anthroponymous (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to an anthroponym.
   • 2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 72:

     Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders.

   • 2016,, Order and Chivalry, page 53

     Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village.

   • 2013,, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396

     It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely.