surname

• n. 姓，姓氏；綽號，別名
• vt. 給…起別名；給…姓氏

sur-,在上，name,名字。用於指姓氏。

surname (n.)

c. 1300, "name, title, or epithet added to a person's name," from sur "above" (from Latin super-; see sur- (1)) + name (n.); modeled on Anglo-French surnoun "surname" (early 14c.), variant of Old French sornom, from sur "over" + nom "name." As "family name" from late 14c.

An Old English word for this was freonama, literally "free name." Meaning "family name" is first found late 14c. Hereditary surnames existed among Norman nobility in England in early 12c., among the common people they began to be used 13c., increasingly frequent until near universal by end of 14c. The process was later in the north of England than the south. The verb is attested from 1510s. Related: Surnamed.

1. The majority of British women adopt their husband's surname when they marry.

大多數英國女性結婚後隨夫姓。

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2. Her first name was Mary. I don't know what her surname was.

她的名字叫瑪麗。我不知道她姓什麽。

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3. Winter is a common enough German surname.

溫特是一個非常普通的德國姓氏。

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4. Nosenko puzzled out Kutya's surname.

諾先科苦苦思索終於想起了庫佳的姓。

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5. She'd never known his surname.

她一直不知道他姓什麽。

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