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What is a cognomen?

What is a cognomen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. surname
  2. (historical) the third part of the name of a citizen of ancient Rome
  3. a nickname or epithet by which someone is identified; a byname; a moniker or sobriquet
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Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen.
Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
Instead others sustain that the origins of the cognomen derives from an individual of short dimensions and very able.
They were not in the habit of flattening the head, and the origin of their cognomen is unknown.
As was mentioned above, spouses and lovers generally call each other by cognomen rather than praenomen.

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