née 也作 nee
Born. Used to indicate the maiden name of a married woman.
Usage Problem Formerly known as.
The traditional conventions of address dictate that née or nee be followed only by a family name (which is, to be sure, the only name one has at birth): Mrs. Mary Parks, née Case, not née Mary Case. · Née is a feminine form in French, and both its spelling and its pronunciation indicate that it has not been fully nativized. Its use to describe men who have changed their names is likely to raise eyebrows among people who recognize the etymology of the word, unless the intention is clearly jocular. A phrase like John Smith, née Schmidt, would be more accurately— and less affectedly—paraphrased with an unexceptionally English word such as born or formerly known as.
French [feminine past participle of] naître [to be born]
from Old French naistre
from Latin n&2{³sc&9{º}} * see gen&2{…}-