cognomen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cognomen	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cognomen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cognomen n 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" Synonym(s): nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) Synonym(s): surname, family name, cognomen, last name
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cognomen \Cog*no"men\, n. [L.: co- + (g)nomen name.] 1. The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family. 2. (Eng. Law) A surname.