NICKNAME  , a name given to a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person in addition to his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal names, See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian and surname, either as a playful or See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of address or as a See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark of ridicule, contempt or hatred . The See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle See also:

• ENGLISH

English form of the word, nekename, shows that it is a corruption of " an ekename " (i.e . " added " name; eke, earlier eche, from the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root seen in See also:

• LAT

Lat. augere, Gr. aWtvew), and is therefore See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the Lat. agnomen . There is an interesting See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of See also:

• NATIONAL

national nicknames in Notes and Queries, 9th See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 4, 212-214 .