Cognomen - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|kɒɡˈnəʊmən|
Brit.
|kɒɡˈnəʊmən|
noun
- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) (syn: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet)
- the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) (syn: surname)
- the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) (syn: surname)
Extra examples
...richly deserved the cognomen of “Butterfingers”...
...“Christopher Columbus” is the Latinized cognomen of the navigator who was known to his Spanish crewmates as Cristóbal Colón...
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