Noun(1) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name(2) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name(3) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)(4) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [also: cognomina (pl)](5) name
Noun(1) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name(2) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name(3) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)(4) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [also: cognomina (pl)](5) name
(1) One of the new owners bears the cognomen of Mark and, as many people know, the Thai phrase that sounds a lot like u2018mark, marku2019 means u2018muchu2019 or u2018a lot ofu2019.(2) Robert Fitzgerald correctly refers to Athena's cognomen in the first book of the Odyssey as u2018Mentes.u2019(3) 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.(4) It didn't last long under that cognomen and now goes by the less enticing Pan Nice Lady Bar.(5) Scipio received the cognomen Africanus and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph.(6) A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books.(7) u2018The name u2018Caesaru2019 is a cognomen , a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.(8) The first revolver bearing the cognomen LadySmith was the Model M Hand Ejector of 1902.(9) 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.(10) Galaxy's tough, brawling style earned him the cognomen , u2018The Thai Tysonu2019 and his record certainly shows a man who dominated his division.
