Meaning

4 senses
  1. The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

    James is my first name, and Smith is my surname.

    Nachname, Familienname

    фами́лияfamílija

    прі́звищеprízvyšče

    the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

  2. (Classical studies)The cognomen of Roman names.

  3. (obsolete)Synonym of epithet, an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement.

  4. (obsolete)Synonym of nickname, an additional name given to a person, place, or thing, a byname.

Examples

83 sentences
  1. Spaniards have two surnames.

    У іспанців є два прізвища.

    ruУ испанцев две фамилии.

    deSpanier haben zwei Nachnamen.

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  2. How is your surname written?

    Як пишеться твоє прізвище?

    ruКак пишется ваша фамилия?

    deWie schreibt sich Ihr Nachname?

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  3. How do you spell your surname?

    Як пишеться твоє прізвище?

    deWie wird Ihr Familienname geschrieben?

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  4. Tom didn't tell us his surname.

    Том не сказав нам своє прізвище.

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  5. His surname is a tongue-twister.

    У нього прізвище - язик зламаєш.

    deSein Nachname ist ein Zungenbrecher.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
name that indicates family:
Русский
By meaning 1
name that indicates family:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
name that indicates family:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“su

Inherited from Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.

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Forms

plural: surnames

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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