Cognomen

Definition: Cognomen

Cognomen

Noun

1. A familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph".

2. The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name).

Date "cognomen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Etymology: Cognomen \Cog*no"men\, noun. [Latin: co- (g)nomen name.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Cognomen

Synonyms: family name (n), last name (n), moniker (n), nickname (n), sobriquet (n), soubriquet (n), surname (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nomenclature	Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cognomen

English words defined with "cognomen": Childe, Cognominal, Cognomination ♦ To take a name in vain. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cognomen": Lely. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cognomen" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (3rd name, byname, family, family name, name, nickname, nick-name, sobriquet, surname).

"Cognomen" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cognomen" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cognomen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nifkë, mbiemër (adjective, attribute, last name, name, surname). (various references)

Arabic		‏كنية (agnomen, epithet, nickname, surname), ‏لقب (agnomen, appellation, call, denomination, designate, designation, dub, entitle, epithet, nickname, pet name, sobriquet, soubriquet, style, surname, title), ‏اللقب للأسرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		фамилно име (family name, surname), прякор (alias, by name, epithet, handle, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname). (various references)

Czech		příjmení (surname). (various references)

French		nom de famille. (various references)

German		Spitzname (moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet). (various references)

Greek		παρατσούκλι (byword, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet), επώνυμο (last name, surname). (various references)

Hungarian		gúnynév (nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet). (various references)

Italian		cognome (appellation, name, surname). (various references)

Manx		sliennoo (surname), far-ennym (alias, nickname, pronoun, pseudonym), ennym clein. (various references)

Pig Latin		ognomencay

Portuguese		cognome (epithet, nickname), sobrenome (appellation, family name, last name, surname), apelido (byname, denomination, epithet, first name, name, nickname, surname), alcunha (appellation, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet). (various references)

Romanian		poreclã (agnomen, alias, by name, byword, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname), nume de familie (surname). (various references)

Russian		фамилия (family name, name, surname), прозвище (agnomen, by-name, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prezime (forename, surname), nadimak (nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, tag). (various references)

Spanish		nombre (appellation, forename, name, noun). (various references)

Swedish		familjenamn (family name, patronymic), binamn (by name, byname, nickname, sobriquet). (various references)

Turkish		takma ad (agnomen, alias, byname, incognito, nickname, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym, pseudonymity, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname), soyad, lakap (agnomen, epithet, moniker, nickname, patronymic, sobriquet, surname). (various references)

Ukrainian		прізвисько (appellative, byname, by-word, nickname, surname), прізвище (surname). (various references)

Vietnamese		tên họ (surname), tên (appellation, arrow, forename, missile, name), biệt hiệu (alias, anonym, sobriquet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	com-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cognomen": cognomens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cognomen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cenomani, Cogenhoe, cognomeu, cognomon, congnomen, Cornholme. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "cognomen" (pronounced 'Cog*no"men'): Acumen, Agnomen, Albumen, Alumen, Bitumen, Cerumen, Coronamen, Culmen, Duramen, flamen, foramen, Germen, Legumen, lumen, Oleamen, Ostmen, Post-abdomen, Praenomen, Prenomen, Putamen, rumen, semen, Seralbumen, stamen, Vimen, Yamen. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-m-n-n-o-o"
	-2 letters: gnomon, mongoe, noncom, nonego.
	-3 letters: cogon, conge, congo, genom, gnome, mongo, nomen, nonce.
	-4 letters: come, cone, conn, coon, gone, goon, meno, mono, moon, neon, nome, none, noon, omen, once.
	-5 letters: cog, con, coo, ego, eng, eon, gem, gen, goo, meg, men, moc, mog, mon, moo, nog, nom, noo, one.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-g-m-n-n-o-o"
	+1 letter: cognomens, monogenic.
	+3 letters: coenamoring, economising, economizing, monogenetic.
	+4 letters: honeycombing, meningococci.
	+5 letters: congresswoman, congresswomen, countermoving, meningococcal, meningococcic, meningococcus, monoaminergic, monogenically, overconsuming.
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