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COGNOMEN
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Irregular inflected form: cognomina
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
Synonyms:
cognomen; family name; last name; surname
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cognomen" is a kind of...):
name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognomen"):
maiden name (a woman's surname before marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Example:
Henry's nickname was Slim
Synonyms:
byname; cognomen; moniker; nickname; sobriquet; soubriquet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cognomen" is a kind of...):
appellation; appellative; denomination; designation (identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others)
