pseudonym: [19] Pseudonym comes via French pseudonyme from Greek pseudónumon, a compound formed from pseudés ‘false’ and ónoma ‘name’. Pseudés, a derivative of the verb pseúdein ‘lie’, has given English the prolific prefix pseudo-, which in the mid 20th century yielded the noun and adjective pseud. => name
pseudonym (n.)
1828, in part a back-formation from pseudonymous, in part from German pseudonym and French pseudonyme (adj.), from Greek pseudonymos "having a false name, under a false name," from pseudes "false" (see pseudo-) + onyma, Aeolic dialectal variant of onoma "name" (see name (n.)).
"Possibly a dictionary word" at first [Barnhart]. Fowler calls it "a queer out-of-the-way term for an everyday thing." Properly in reference to made-up names; the name of an actual author or person of reputation affixed to a work he or she did not write is an allonym. An author's actual name affixed to his or her own work is an autonym (1867).
双语例句
1. She writes under a pseudonym .
她用笔名写作。
来自《权威词典》
2. Eric Blair wrote under the pseudonym of George Orwell.
埃里克·布莱尔用乔治·奧威尔这个笔名写作.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Both plays were published under the pseudonym of Philip Dayre.
两个剧本都是以菲利普·戴尔的笔名出版的。
来自辞典例句
4. George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
乔治.艾略特是玛丽.安. 埃文斯的笔名.
来自互联网
5. Ulcer is his seventh book, all written under pseudonym Fang Zhouzi.