Aptronymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of apt +‎ patronym

名詞

aptronym (複数形 aptronyms)

1. A name that is aptly suited to its owner.
   • a. 1993, Danielle Schaub, "Mavis Gallant's Double Illusion", in, 1993, Jean-Michael Lacroix, Simone Vauthier, and Héliane Ventura, editors, Image et Récit, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, →ISBN, page 82 [1]:

     Speck also turns out to be a shopkeeper whose small-town mentality finds a reflection in his aptronym: "Speck" in German meaning bacon, he is the local butcher concerned with selling his merchandise regardless of its real quality.

   • 2000, Lorna Fitzsimmons, “Of ‘Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower’: Gyno-Turning in Limit Up and Svankmajer’s Faust”, chapter 12 of Wendy Everett (editor), The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 149:

     This contradiction is condensed within the aptronym Casey Falls: her first name recalls Jim Casy, the preacher who is sacrificed helping migrant workers in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, while her surname evokes Eve and the Fall.

   • a. 2004, Peter Cosgrove, "History and Utopia in Ormond", in, 2004, Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske, editors, An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts, Delaware, →ISBN page 77 [2]:

     The latter after marrying Sir Ulick's steward becomes Mrs. M'Crule, an aptronym expressing her excessive bigotry in preventing the Catholic boy, Tommy Dunshaughlin, from attending a charity school.

同意語

• (personal name appropriate to one's character または trade): euonym, aptonym, charactonym

反意語

• misnomer

派生語

• aptronymic
• aptronymous

関連する語

• apronym

参考

• aptronym on Wikipedia.
• Nominative determinism on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• partonym, patronym