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
Other people were a little frightened by M. Ritz, even intimidated by his martial cognomen or his last name that sounded sharp and hard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Emmett Barrett was the soothing and patriotic cognomen my father fastened upon me when I first opened my eyes and I looked him squarely in the face.
From Treading the Narrow Way by R. E. Barrett
Without these air-inflated cognomens, Jim and Marion Jordan might now be back in Peoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name "black-spotted" trout describes this fish more accurately than any other of his cognomens.
From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya
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
To the uninitiated reader, it may, perhaps, be interesting to know the meaning of the somewhat strange Indian cognomens.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman
Erasmus doubted whether Duns Scotus and the Venerable Bede had been complimented in being made name-fathers to a couple of owls; but he said Argus and Juno were good cognomens for peacocks.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
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
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
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
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