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to-name

to-name noun: synonym of byname, any secondary name, including epithets, surnames, nicknames, cognomens, etc.

Noun

to-name (plural to-names)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Synonym of byname, any secondary name, including epithets, surnames, nicknames, cognomens, etc.
    Synonyms:
    byname, any secondary name, including epithets, surnames, nicknames, cognomens, etc

Verb

to-name (third-person singular simple present to-names, present participle to-naming, simple past and past participle to-named)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Synonym of byname, to give a byname to.
    • Brian Kennedy, to-named Boraimh, or Taxer.1775, William Buchanan, An Inquiry into the Genealogy and Present State of Ancient Scottish Surnames..., page 49
    Synonyms:
    byname, to give a byname to

to-name meaning in Tamil

to-name in Tamil

அடையொட்டுப்பெயர், புனைபெயர்

Synonyms of to-name

All synonyms of to-name

Forms of to-name

Noun
pluralto-names
alternative formtee-name
alternative formtoname
alternative formtuename
alternative formtowname
Verb
third-person singular presentto-names
present participleto-naming
past participleto-named
pastto-named

Origin of to-name

From Middle English toname, tonome, from Old English tōnama (“surname”), equivalent to to- + name. Cognate with West Frisian tanamme, Dutch toenaam, Middle Low German toname, German Zuname, Danish tilnavn, Swedish tillnamn.

Questions about to-name

What does to-name mean?
To-name means synonym of byname, any secondary name, including epithets, surnames, nicknames, cognomens, etc.
What is to-name in Tamil?
To-name in Tamil is அடையொட்டுப்பெயர், புனைபெயர். See To-name meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is to-name?
To-name can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of to-name?
The plural of to-name is to-names.

Words near to-name in the dictionary

  1. to-heap
  2. to-infinitive
  3. to-infinitives
  4. to-morrow
  5. to-morrows
  6. to-name
  7. to-named
  8. to-names
  9. to-naming
  10. to-night
  11. to-nights

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: to-name (page history and authors); to-name (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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