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cognomento

cognomento is a Latin form of cognomentum, meaning “surname, family/3rd/allusive name; sobriquet; name”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun or dative singular neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.15: … ur, ut non intellegatur. quod duobus modis sine reprehensione fit, si aut de industria facias, ut Heraclitus, cognomento qui perhibetur, quia de natura nimis obscure memoravit, aut cum rerum obscuritas, non verborum, facit ut non …

All forms of cognomentum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.