In Spanish nickname translates as "nickname, alias" and is especially used to identify in virtual communities. The origin is in the old phrase an eke-name , which was formed by article an ( "un" ), the Germanic adverb eke ( "in addition") and the noun name ( "name") . Over time, when the use of that adverb was lost, the phrase was interpreted as 'a nickname', from where 'nickname' came from.
