In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
BYNAME
nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
(noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person’s given name); “Joe’s mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph”; “Henry’s nickname was Slim”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
byname (plural bynames)
(archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
(archaic, historical) A nickname.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
(paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.
Synonyms
• cognomen
• sobriquet
• to-name
Hypernyms
• name
Verb
byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)
(transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.
Anagrams
• baymen
Source: Wiktionary
By"-name`, n.
Definition: A nickname. Camden.
By"name`, v. t.
Definition: To give a nickname to. Camden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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