andronym

Noun

andronym (plural andronyms)

1. A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.
2. The name of the husband, taken on by the wife.
   • A woman joins her husbands patrigroup at marriage; she acquires her husbands surname and andronym, and is treated as the bride of the patrigroup in village usage.1991, Michael Herzfeld, “Silence, Submission and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood”, in Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece, →ISBN, page 89
   • [S]he often uses the andronym rather than the patronym in her identifying inscription.1999, “review of Johanna Fabricius, Die hellenistischen Totenmahlreliefs. Grabrepräsentation und Wertvorstellungen in ostgriechischen Städten. by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway”, in Bryn Mawr Classical...
3. A male name adopted by a woman.
   • Critical of Loti's sexist exploitation of women in his serial performances as an "Orientalist" writer, Marie Léra (writing under the andronym of 'Marc Hélys') persuaded a couple of friends she visited in Constantinople to join her in masquerading as veiled Turkish women when meeting the novelist2001, K. K. Ruthven, Faking Literature, →ISBN, page 179