So you figured it out now after looking it up twice, that's good. 

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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why should being good and attaining
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--- In [email protected], "llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Patronymics - naming a child - like naming some bastard 
> new age technique Buddhist. 


Main Entry:
    pat.ro.nym.ic 
Function:
    noun 
Etymology:
    ultimately from Greek patronymia patronymic, from 
patr- + onyma name - more at name
Date:
    1612

: a name derived from that of the father or a paternal 
ancestor usually by the addition of an affix.


...as in, Ivan Ivanovich Smegma. Ivan son
of Ivan, last name Smegma. Ivanovich is the
patronymic.






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