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Aptronym, a personal name descriptive of the person so named.
His name is considered to be an aptronym.
Trey Hardee is a decathlete which surely qualifies him as an aptronym too.
The stage name "Austen Tayshus" is an aptronym based on the word "ostentatious".
Indeed there are many websites where 'aptonym' is mistakenly used instead of 'aptronym', but none confusing 'apronym' with anything.
The distinction between cognitive determinacy and a mere aptronym is seen as subtle but fundamental: i.e. post hoc vs propter hoc.
Channel 4 gave aptronym enthusiasts a rare treat by dispatching Rob Walker to Daegu, although strictly speaking he was talking the walk rather than walking it.
A related term, to refer to a name peculiarly suited to its owner, is the aptronym, said to have been coined by the US newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams.
Adams is credited with coining the term "aptronym" for last names that fit a person's career or job title, although it was later refined to "aptonym" by Frank Nuessel in 1992.
Synonyms and related concepts include: aptronym, apronym, aptonym, euonym, jobonyms, 'namephreaks', onomastic determinism, 'perfect fit last names' (PFLNs), psychonymics.
Granted that's a gag not widely appreciated outside Morningside (a smarter part of Edinburgh) and its surrounds but it's enough, I would suggest, to qualify Chip Beck as an aptronym.
"The apt word you seek," McQuain says, "is aptronym, said to be coined by the American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams, who in 1938 joined the panel of radio's 'Information Please."'
Judicious selection from the available allocation could result in clever meanings and result in an aptronym or backronym, although policy was to select words that had no obviously deducible connection with what they were supposed to be concealing.
Aptronym, aptonym or euonym are rarely-encountered neologisms for the concept of nominative determinism, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner; essentially, when someone's name describes what they are or what they do.
Indeed there are many websites where 'aptonym' is mistakenly used instead of 'aptronym', but none confusing 'apronym' with anything.
Adams is credited with coining the term "aptronym" for last names that fit a person's career or job title, although it was later refined to "aptonym" by Frank Nuessel in 1992.
Synonyms and related concepts include: aptronym, apronym, aptonym, euonym, jobonyms, 'namephreaks', onomastic determinism, 'perfect fit last names' (PFLNs), psychonymics.
Aptronym, aptonym or euonym are rarely-encountered neologisms for the concept of nominative determinism, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner; essentially, when someone's name describes what they are or what they do.
Derived from the ancient Greek, the vowel-laden word euonym means an apt name for a person, place or thing.
She is one of the most well-known spelling bee winners, spelling her final word, "euonym," by screaming out each letter.
Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Sealfon, from Brooklyn, New York won the competition by correctly spelling the word "euonym".
Synonyms and related concepts include: aptronym, apronym, aptonym, euonym, jobonyms, 'namephreaks', onomastic determinism, 'perfect fit last names' (PFLNs), psychonymics.
Her life these days is a departure from the frenzy that followed her spelling bee win, after that magic moment when she realized, “I know that one”: euonym, “an appropriate name for a person, place or thing.”
Aptronym, aptonym or euonym are rarely-encountered neologisms for the concept of nominative determinism, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner; essentially, when someone's name describes what they are or what they do.
"I study a set number of pages, as opposed to a set time or set amount of words," said Rebecca, the 13-year-old from Brooklyn Heights who aced the national spelling bee on Thursday by exuberantly punching out the letters in the word "euonym" (pronounced YOU-o-nim, meaning "an apt name").