NOUN
- the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
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a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Henry's nickname was Slim
Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
How To Use cognomen In A Sentence
- The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident. Vergil
- With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
- This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
- Galaxy's tough, brawling style earned him the cognomen, ‘The Thai Tyson’ and his record certainly shows a man who dominated his division.
- The name chickpea traces back through the French chiche to Latin cicer (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken). Find Me A Cure
- Men acquired names from some notable action or occurrence; such was the agnomen, and frequently the cognomen, of the Romans.
- Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
- ‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
- Scipio received the cognomen Africanus and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph.
- Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
