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tecno-
(also tekno-),
repr. Gr. τεκνο-, combining form of τέκνον child (as in τεκνογόνος bearing children, etc.); used in Eng. in a few rare technical words. ‖ tecnocˈtonia [Gr. -κτόνος murderer], child-murder, infanticide. ‖ tecnoˈgonia [Gr. γονή generation], † (a) the age of a father at his eldest child's birth; (b) child-bearing, pregnancy. tecnolater, tek- |tɛkˈnɒlətə(r)|, one who worships or idolizes children; so tecˈnolatry [-latry]; tecnology |tɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ| [-logy], the scientific study of children; pædology. tecnonymy, now usu. tek- |tɛkˈnɒnɪmɪ| [Gr. ὄνοµα, ὄνυµα name], the practice among certain peoples of naming a parent from his or her child; so tecˈnonymous |tɛk-| a., practising tecnonymy.
1857Dunglison Med. Lex., *Tecnoctonia.
a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 178 Partly by adding 100 Years to that *Technogonia of the Patriarchs before Abraham, have made the Period larger by 884 Years. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tecnogonia.
1914A. 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.’
1899Beerbohm More 174 A perfect example of our *tecnolatry, our delight in the undirected oddities of children.
1857Dunglison Med. Lex., *Tecnology.., a treatise on children. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Tecnology, the study or scientific knowledge of childhood.
1888E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. (1889) Feb. 248 Another 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.]. 1888Athenæum 1 Dec. 740/1 Another custom, here called teknonymy [by Dr. E. B. Tylor]..; as an example was mentioned the name of Ra-Mary, or Father of Mary, by which Moffat was generally known in Africa. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnological Theory vii. 81 Teknonymy is no longer the inevitable effect of matrilocal residence or of an avoidance rule. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organization i. 9 A 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’. |