prenom
prenom noun: a formal title or honorific descriptor that precedes the name. For example, in "The Great and Powerful Oz", "The Great and Powerful" is a prenom.
Noun
prenom (plural prenoms)
- A formal title or honorific descriptor that precedes the name. For example, in "The Great and Powerful Oz", "The Great and Powerful" is a prenom.
- The same is also proved of the first and last characters of the group by their appearing in cartouches that are confessedly ideagraphic; one of them in the prenom of No. 26, and the other in No. 29 (or 115 of the plates of the Precis)., which is a variation of that of the king supposed to have been...1835, Charles William Wall, An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews
- The signification of the prenom is shown to have been that this ancient sovereign was “beloved by Phthah ;" the succeeding Ptolemies were forced upon the necessity of some mark of distinction in the record of their names; for this purpose each succeeding monarch had simply but to change the...1836, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 640
Forms of prenom
| plural | prenoms |
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Origin of prenom
From pre- + -nom.
Questions about prenom
- What does prenom mean?
- Prenom means a formal title or honorific descriptor that precedes the name. For example, in "The Great and Powerful Oz", "The Great and Powerful" is a prenom.
- What part of speech is prenom?
- Prenom is a noun.
- What is the plural of prenom?
- The plural of prenom is prenoms.
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