cognomina

These names are all cognomina, which is to say nicknames that got attached to branches of prominent families.

Archive 2007-01-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

These names are all cognomina, which is to say nicknames that got attached to branches of prominent families.

Chickpea Walter Jon Williams 2007

While I haven't read this directly, I would presume that the Latin name in turn formed, as many Latin cognomina do, from a descriptive adjective.

Sentina, an Etruscanized Latin name 2010

While I haven't read this directly, I would presume that the Latin name in turn formed, as many Latin cognomina do, from a descriptive adjective.

Archive 2010-08-01 2010

Only one of the cognomina (third names), Antoneinos (in Latin, Antoninus), remained.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 4 2003

He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Verum haud recta insistentes via umbras germanae gloriae non veram sectabantur, cognomina sibi nobilitatis imponentes, eaque Anglorum more ostentantes atque iactantes, quum antea is haberi esseque nobilissimus soleret, qui virtute non opibus, qui egregiis a se factis non maiorum suorum clarus erat.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Amongst other cognomina, they assumed that of Nero, which in the

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922