1857 Dunglison Med. Lex. ,*Tecnoctonia.
a1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 178Partly by adding 100 Years to that *Technogonia of the Patriarchs before Abraham, have made the Period larger by 884 Years.
1860 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Tecnogonia.
1914 A. H. Sidgwick Promenade Ticket 30‘Those who are called so ’ ( [ sc. happy] i.e. by Froebel, Wordsworth, and *teknolaters generally) ‘are simply congratulated on account of their promise.’
1899 Beerbohm More 174A perfect example of our *tecnolatry, our delight in the undirected oddities of children.
1857 Dunglison Med. Lex. ,*Tecnology.., a treatise on children.
1899 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Tecnology, the study or scientific knowledge of childhood.
1888 E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. (1889) Feb. 248Another custom..is the practice of naming the parent from the child... There are above thirty peoples spread over the earth who thus name the father, and, though less often, the mother. They may be called, coining a name for them, *teknonymous peoples. When beginning to notice the wide distribution of this custom of *teknonymy . [ etc.]
1888 Athenæum 1 Dec. 740/1 Another custom, here called teknonymy ..; as an example was mentioned the name of Ra-Mary, or Father of Mary, by which Moffat was generally known in Africa. [ by Dr. E. B. Tylor]
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnological Theory vii. 81Teknonymy is no longer the inevitable effect of matrilocal residence or of an avoidance rule.
1951 R. Firth Elem. Social Organization i. 9A child does not take its name from its parents; on the contrary, in the institution of teknonymy they are known as ‘Father and Mother of So-and-so’.
tecno-
combining form
Etymology: Greek tekno-, from teknon — more at thane
: child
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tecno-tecn- tekn- tekno-
Prefix
- child
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τέκνον (téknon).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with tecno-