Word of the Day with Bunny Themelis – Matronymic

Bunny Themelis is a Canadian-born, Baltimore-raised half-Greek who lives in Baltimore with the coolest dogs in the world, Miss Toni and Zeus. She tells stories. Bunny hosts the 2Geeky web series, the Superior Saturday Mic at the Charm City Comedy Project in Baltimore, and has opened for Colin Quinn and Steve Hofstetter. She is the cohost of the Pinko Commie Slutz podcast.

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Today’s word of the day is “matronymic“, which is a name derived from that of the mother or a maternal ancestor.

Did you know: Matronymic is a hybrid of Latin māter “mother” and the Greek-based ending from patronymic. As an adjective, “pertaining to or being derived from a mother or maternal ancestor,” from 1874.

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