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cognomine

cognomine is a Latin form of cognomen, meaning “surname, family name; nickname”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 103: Africanus qui suo cognomine declarat tertiam partem orbis terrarum se subegisse tamen, si sua res ageretur, testimonium non diceret; nam …

All forms of cognomen (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.