cognomen
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And people have continued to find it risibly apposite ever since - especially in conjunction with the equally commonplace cognomen, Will.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2015
Retief Goosen - “Goose” Our second cognomen derived from a last name, which should rank it lower on the list.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
Its most evocative cognomen is The Porchcrawler—one unhyphenated word, with the crunch of consonants enhancing its cinematic imagery.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
A vagrant project, of the type that annually prowls unheralded into a vacant theatre during the Lenten season of depression and low rentals, appeared under this curious cognomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name Liszt would be meal or flour in English; so that Frank Flour might have been his unromantic cognomen; a difference from Liszt Ferencz, with its accompanying battle-cry of Eljen!
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Without these air-inflated cognomens, Jim and Marion Jordan might now be back in Peoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colonel had given these men names to suit himself, and they were proud of their cognomens.
From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Oliver Optic
There were frequent cases of coincidence in the most absurd cognomens.
From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The editor is going to read in a hurry the first time through, and he cannot continually consult the cast to identify your constant changes in cognomens.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
The name of this festival is derived from one of the cognomens of Ceres—the goddess "who first gave laws and made life orderly."
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
On the other hand, some aristocratic families used multiple cognomina to indicate their lineage; one inscription indicates that Q. Pompeius Senecio Sosius Priscus, ordinary consul in 169, had 38 names.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2016
The Romans had surnames, or cognomina, but the barbarians who won Europe from them had not.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
More certain yet is the likeness which shows in a list of 27 names, and all but one without cognomina.
From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
