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cognomen
noun[ C ]
formaluk /kɒɡˈnəʊ.men/ us /kɑːɡˈnoʊ.mən/
a name or nickname(= an informal name given to someone by their friends, family, etc.), especially one that describes someone or something:
The heinous nature of his crime earned him the cognomen "monster".
The “People’s Friend” was the cognomen he had now acquired from the title of his journal.
history specialized
in ancient Rome, a third personal name given to a citizen, usually passed down from father to son:
The word chickpea traces back through the French "chiche" to Latin "cicer" (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken).
Saul, whose Roman cognomen was Paul, was born of Jewish parents in the first decade of the common era.
One of them gloried in the cognomen "Short Sam".
She had only ever thought of him as "The Man" and she searched her mind for a suitable cognomen.
According to some scholars, only literatures in indigenous African languages can properly merit the cognomen of "African literature".
For the census each citizen had to give his full name (praenomen, nomen, and cognomen) and that of his father.
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