Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to surname
Participle: surnamed
Gerund: surnaming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | surname |
| you | surname |
| he;she;it | surnames |
| we | surname |
| you | surname |
| they | surname |
Perfect
| I | have surnamed |
| you | have surnamed |
| he;she;it | has surnamed |
| we | have surnamed |
| you | have surnamed |
| they | have surnamed |
Past
| I | surnamed |
| you | surnamed |
| he;she;it | surnamed |
| we | surnamed |
| you | surnamed |
| they | surnamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had surnamed |
| you | had surnamed |
| he;she;it | had surnamed |
| we | had surnamed |
| you | had surnamed |
| they | had surnamed |
Future
| I | will surname |
| you | will surname |
| he;she;it | will surname |
| we | will surname |
| you | will surname |
| they | will surname |
Future Perfect
| I | will have surnamed |
| you | will have surnamed |
| he;she;it | will have surnamed |
| we | will have surnamed |
| you | will have surnamed |
| they | will have surnamed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | surname |
| you | surname |
| he;she;it | surname |
| we | surname |
| you | surname |
| they | surname |
Perfect
| I | have surnamed |
| you | have surnamed |
| he;she;it | have surnamed |
| we | have surnamed |
| you | have surnamed |
| they | have surnamed |
Imperfect
| I | surnamed |
| you | surnamed |
| he;she;it | surnamed |
| we | surnamed |
| you | surnamed |
| they | surnamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had surnamed |
| you | had surnamed |
| he;she;it | had surnamed |
| we | had surnamed |
| you | had surnamed |
| they | had surnamed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would surname |
| you | would surname |
| he;she;it | would surname |
| we | would surname |
| you | would surname |
| they | would surname |
Perfect
| I | would have surnamed |
| you | would have surnamed |
| he;she;it | would have surnamed |
| we | would have surnamed |
| you | would have surnamed |
| they | would have surnamed |
Imperative
| you | surname |
| we | Let's surname |
| you | surname |
Verbs conjugated like 'surname'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'surname'
furnace,
outname,
surbase,
surbate,
surface,
bename,
burinate,
byname,
curate,
dename,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.
Sample Sentences
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“Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’” [1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:]
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The man, surnamed Hsieh (謝), was arrested in the city’s Jhonghe District (中和) on Friday afternoon, after investigators combed through surveillance video footage a day earlier, police said. [2025 March 2, “Taxi driver arrested after seven dead cats are found”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025, Taiwan News, page 3:]