英:[kɒg'nəʊmen]
美:[kɑɡˈnomən]
英:[kɒg'nəʊmen]
美:[kɑɡˈnomən]
cog·no·men
kag no mihn
复数:cognomens或cognomina
cognominal (adj.), cognominally (adv.)
Noun
1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name);
"Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"
"Henry's nickname was Slim"
2. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
1754年,“一个特定的名称”; 1809年,“一个姓氏”; 源自拉丁语,来自于 com “与,一起”(见 com-) + (g)nomen “名称”(来自于 PIE 词根 *no-men- “名称”)。罗马公民所知的三个名称中的最后一个(Caius Julius Csar,Marcus Tullius Cicero)。
Latin, irregular from co- + nomen name — more at name
The first known use of cognomen was in 1691
cogwheelnoun
a wheel with cogs
judgmentnoun
the act of judging
a decision given by a court
the process of forming an opinion by examining and comparing
an opinion so formed
the ability to judge : discernment
cognomennoun
a person's last name : surname
name entry 1 sense 1especially: nickname entry 1
cognomennoun
a person's last name : surname
name entry 1 sense 1especially: nickname entry 1
cognomennoun
a person's last name : surname
name entry 1 sense 1especially: nickname entry 1
1 The name Liszt would be meal or flour in English; so that Frank Flour might have been his unromantic cognomen; a difference from Liszt Ferencz, with its accompanying battle-cry of Eljen!
2 Among the whites they are known by the name of Powell, since that was the cognomen of the worthy old gentleman who begot them.
3 "There is the letter," replied Manners, "with your titles, nomen and cognomen, as clearly superscribed as ever I saw them written:--Captain the Honourable Edward de Vaux, with many et c�teras."
4 Moore submitted dozens of wonderful, wondrous cognomens, including Mongoose Civique, Regina-rex, Aeroterre, Dearborn Diamanté and the deathless Utopian Turtletop.
5 A veteran of the prairie whose civilized appellation was shrouded by his western cognomen, Kamusi was one of the parson's right-hand men.
6 richly deserved the cognomen of “Butterfingers”
7 At this time, too, a casual inquiry into some ancient cognomens, which have descended to us from remote antiquity, induced me to examine into ancient faiths generally.
8 The colonel had given these men names to suit himself, and they were proud of their cognomens.
9 The names “Nigel” and “Henry” constantly occurring, told that both his sons had a share in his cogitations, though chiefly the latter, whose cognomen was most frequently pronounced.
10 He writes under a slightly more suitable cognomen, but I have been unable, in our brief acquaintance, to drag it from him.
11 Mrs. Sarah Jane Watts, better known to society and society's guardians by the cognomen of Mother Watts, kept a lodging-house in Kent Street.
12 His cognomen Maecenatianus marks him as a slave of the friend of Augustus who died 8 B.C.
13 The sneer at his plebeian cognomen stung him to the quick, for Powell understood enough of English nomenclature to know that “Thompson” was not an aristocratic appellation; and the sarcasm cut keenly.
14 Bob and Roberta Smith, it should be noted, is the cognomen of not two but one British artist who specializes in humorously mocking art institutions and the conventional attitudes they tend to promulgate.
15 The old English yeoman has lost many of his most honoured cognomens, but he can still, at least, boast one thing.
16 Largely divorced from their religious origins, they are now carnivals of cognomens, increasingly untethered from God, country and state committee.
17 Robert Emmett Barrett was the soothing and patriotic cognomen my father fastened upon me when I first opened my eyes and I looked him squarely in the face.
18 The cognomen, or surname, of the Oba is Ekpen-owa, or home leopard.
19 Rufus is an unusual cognomen.
鲁弗斯不是一个平常的姓。
20 It's so embarrassing at times to have a cognomen escape you, just when you feel it, too, on the tip of your tongue, but can't get it off.