prenom

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See also: prénom

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ -nom

Noun

prenom (plural prenoms)

  1. 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.
    • 1835, Charles William Wall, An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews:
      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 called Ramasis.
    • 1836, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 640:
      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 prenominal insignia of his predecessor by the addition of some emblem or symbol.
    • 1856, The Peninsular Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences:
      This is the Prusso-Michigan system, and not a department of it, and this is the system which, instead of being treated as a by-word, should be honored and upheld by every conservative citizen who desires to preserve and perpetuate our representative institutions, whether he delights in the prenom of democrat or republican.

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