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Definition of Cognomina
1. cognomen [n] - See also: cognomen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognomina
Literary usage of Cognomina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1897)
"In either case cognomina in -anus appear to lie back of them. ... cognomina
in -o, -onis form the basis of a considerable class of gentiles in ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"There existed side by side as well vulgarisms in general use as African
provincialisms (comp. Eph. epigr., iv. p. 520, as to the cognomina in -osus); ..."
3. History of Christian Names by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1863)
"SECTION I. ROMAN cognomina were originally neither more nor les than nicknames,
sometimes far from complimentary, but for the sake of convenience, ..."
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