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Patronym
see synonyms of patronymNoun
1. patronym, patronymic
a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.