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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
forename en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɔːneɪm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfɔɹneɪm/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂éy
Proto-Germanic *furai
Proto-Germanic *furai-
Proto-West Germanic *forē-
Old English fore-
Middle English fore-
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Germanic *namô
Proto-West Germanic *namō
Old English nama
Middle English name
English name
English forename
From fore- + name.
Meanings
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A name that precedes the surname.
Forms
Antonyms
aftername
Hyponyms
first name (name that precedes the surname) · name (structural) · baptismal name (name that precedes the surname) · middle name (name that precedes the surname) · confirmation name (name that precedes the surname)
Relateds
family name · clan name · surname · last name
Synonyms
Christian name (name that precedes the surname) · prename (name that precedes the surname) · given name (name that precedes the surname)
Translations (39)
fr nom de baptême (name that precedes the surname) · da fornavn (name that precedes the surname) · es prenombre (name that precedes the surname) · lb Virnumm (name that precedes the surname) · hy անձնանուն (name that precedes the surname) · vi tên (name that precedes the surname) · sv förnamn (name that precedes the surname) · fr prénom (name that precedes the surname) · cmn 名字 (name that precedes the surname) · gd ainm-baistidh (name that precedes the surname) · alt ат (name that precedes the surname) · es nombre propio (name that precedes the surname) · mk лично име (name that precedes the surname) · es nombre de pila (name that precedes the surname) · de Vorname (name that precedes the surname) · ja 名前 (name that precedes the surname) · cs křestní jméno (name that precedes the surname) · nl voornaam (name that precedes the surname) · bg собствено име (name that precedes the surname) · ko 이름 (name that precedes the surname) · hy անուն (name that precedes the surname) · ca nom (name that precedes the surname) · ka სახელი (name that precedes the surname) · vi tên gọi (name that precedes the surname) · br kentanv (name that precedes the surname) · vi tên thánh (name that precedes the surname) · pt nome (name that precedes the surname) · nn fornamn (name that precedes the surname) · pl imię (name that precedes the surname) · ru и́мя (name that precedes the surname) · hu utónév (name that precedes the surname) · pt prenome (name that precedes the surname) · nn førenamn (name that precedes the surname) · ca prenom (name that precedes the surname) · ba исем (name that precedes the surname) · fi etunimi (name that precedes the surname) · nb fornavn (name that precedes the surname) · vo pösodanem (name that precedes the surname) · la praenomen (name that precedes the surname)
forename en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɔːneɪm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfɔɹneɪm/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂éy
Proto-Germanic *furai
Proto-Germanic *furai-
Proto-West Germanic *forē-
Old English fore-
Middle English fore-
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Germanic *namô
Proto-West Germanic *namō
Old English nama
Middle English name
English name
English forename
From fore- + name.
Meanings
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To assign (someone) a first name.
The child was named Pujari Venkata Guru Siva Prasad. the boy was forenamed Pujari to serve as a reminder to the people that he will look after the temple of Gurappa Swami and perform Devara.
2022, The Saviours of the Vitals:He forenamed him Ishmael, and assigns as a reason, his own attention to her present distress.
1798 August, Monitor, “Sacred Biography”, in The Christian Magazine: Or, Evangelical Repository, volume 2, number 18, page 371:It may be noted that Le Verrier subsequently suggested another ad hoc hypothesis , namely , that the irregularities in the orbit of Mercury were due to an interior planet, which he forenamed Vulcan.
1950, Lizzie Susan Stebbing, Revival: A Modern Introduction to Logic, page 398:Implicit in the record of the resolution of a dispute in the manorial court of Werrington in 1368 are issues relating to the pattern of forenaming amongst the lower social groups of medieval England, as well, perhaps, as those concerning law and love and arbitration in inter-peasant conflict.
2020, Dave Postles, Naming the People of England, c.1100-1350, page 68:
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Synonym of prenominate.
Before His birth, He was forenamed, “a man of sorrows” (Isaiah 53:3).
2016, Zacharias Tanee Fomum, The way of Discipleship:So, now, Dickens turned to another idea prefigured in his notebook — a novel which might have been called Time (as he proposed) instead of A Tale of Two Cities (as it became), and which has as a central character the person he forenamed in his notes as "Memory Carton.”
1962, Aryan Path - Volume 33, page 213:A second Parcell of meadow which wee forenamed, sould unto the sayd John Greenland , containing Three Akers, by estimation more or less: Is lying and scituate alsoe on mistike syde, By and nere the South River , It is Bounded by a part of the South River where it divides, and it is Bounded Northwest by the Lands of Richard Dexters, alsoe it is Bounded North Easte by the Lands of Richard Cooke.
1883, Boston. Registry Department, Report of Record Commissioners - Volume 3, page 134:This forenaming of Cyrus is, indeed, extraordinary, and calculated to excite attention.
1880, The Methodist Magazine, page 70:
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To appoint in advance.
A committee was forenamed consisting of Messrs: G W Naylor, W Lister, Jno McDonald, Geo Barraclough, M Worsley, Jos Blacker, R H Morley and Heap with Mr Wood as secretary.
2012, Chris Heath, The Denby Dale Pies, 1788–2000:Now, the Central Junta having to deceive the people, affirmed that Sir Arthur Wellesley had retreated to the frontiers of Portugal at the very moement when the French might have been driven to the Pyrenees, came very soon to believe this, their own absurd calumny, and resolved to send the army at La Carolina headlong against Madrid: nay, such was their pitch of confidence, that forenaming the civil and military authorities, they arranged a provisionary system for the future administration of the capital, with a care, that they denied to the army which was to put them in possession.
1839, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, page 41:CAP provides for the forenaming of approved mortgagees in small communities […]
1958, National Real Estate and Building Journal - Volume 59, Issues 1-6:
Forms
Synonyms
prenominate