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
On the grounds that their name was too difficult to spell and pronounce, the couple petitioned Los Angeles County Superior Court for a legal change of cognomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But tradition makes less of them than of the red-bearded scoundrel who assumed the cognomen of an emperor.
From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway
Without these air-inflated cognomens, Jim and Marion Jordan might now be back in Peoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But I waive for my hero all these his cognomens, and substitute a much better one of my own: namely, the Chevalier.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
At this time, too, a casual inquiry into some ancient cognomens, which have descended to us from remote antiquity, induced me to examine into ancient faiths generally.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
The names Dakota and Sioux are used as synonyms and the English significance instead of the Indian cognomens.
From Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas by R. J. Creswell
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
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
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
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
