Definitions for cognomen

cognomen cog·no·men

Spelling: [kog-noh-muh n]
IPA: /kɒgˈnoʊ mən/

Cognomen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in cognomen (cegmnnoo).

Definitions for cognomen

noun

  1. a surname.
  2. any name, especially a nickname.
  3. the third and commonly the last name of a citizen of ancient Rome, indicating the person's house or family, as “Caesar” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”. Compare agnomen (def 1).

Origin of cognomen

1800-10; Latin, equivalent to co- co- + nōmen name, with -g- on model of nōscī: cognōscī; see cognition

Examples for cognomen

The cognomen was put last, and marked the family; as Cicero, Csar.

This won for him the cognomen of Catatexitechnos—the unreasonably careful.

The Garnetts discussed the cognomen over the play-room fire.

But when you and I are talking, let us give the Italian cognomen a rest.

Nelson had worked for an Englishman at Elizabethville and acquired his cognomen.

Unlearn him his own cognomen,—teach him another name,—too late, too late.

They were not in the habit of flattening the head, and the origin of their cognomen is unknown.

Perhaps the cognomen had something to do with her subordinate position.

Swamp Fox was the cognomen bestowed on Marion by the British.

In these parts I know only one person who carries that cognomen—one Charles Clancy.

Word Value for cognomen
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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