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
That cognomen came from a mistranslation of the Russian word grozny, which means something closer to "awe inspiring."
From Time Magazine Archive
Under such circumstances, one should have a striking cognomen in order to be readily identified.
From Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls by Charles A. Eastman
Without these air-inflated cognomens, Jim and Marion Jordan might now be back in Peoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm giving you straight tips on the cognomens.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
Be they never so incongruous these double-barrelled cognomens serve their purpose and raise ambitious mortals above the level of other Smiths and Browns.
From Worldly Ways and Byways by Eliot Gregory
THE cognomens priest, prophet, presbyter, preacher, parson, and pastor have certain things in common, and these titles may therefore be used interchangeably.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
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
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
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
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
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