Avtonom (russian: Автоно́м) is a Russian Christian male
first name
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[Superanskaya, p. 23] Its feminine version is
Avtonoma.
[Superanskaya p. 278] The name is derived from the
Greek
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Greece
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word ''autonomous'', meaning ''one living by one's own laws''.
"Avtonom" continued to be a form used by the
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, having replaced an earlier form Autonom ().
[Superanskaya p. 34]
Its colloquial variant is Avtomon ().
The
diminutive
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s of "Avtonom" are Avtonomka (), Avtom (), Avtoma (), Toma (), Avtya (),
[Petrovsky, p. 36] and Noma ().
The
patronymic
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s derived from "Avtonom" are "" (''Avtonomovich''; masculine) and its colloquial form "" (''Avtonomych''), and "" (''Avtonomovna''; feminine).
derived from this first name include
Avtonomov and
Antomanov.
[Ganzhina, p. 12]
People with this first name
*
Avtonom Golovin (1667–1720), Russian military leader
References
Notes
Additional reading
*
А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (''Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling''). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005.
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А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (''Dictionary of Russian Names''). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005.
*Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names''). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005.
*И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (''Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names''). Москва, 2001.
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