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In these parts I know only one person who carries that cognomen -- one Charles Clancy.

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  1. noun A family name; a surname.
  2. noun The third and usually last name of a citizen of ancient Rome, as Caesar in Gaius Julius Caesar.
  3. noun A name, especially a descriptive nickname or epithet acquired through usage over a period of time.

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  • I speak of Amade, or, as he is better known, Aime Bonpland--cognomen appropriate to this most estimable man--known to all the world as the friend and fellow-traveller of Humboldt; more still, his assistant and collaborates in those scientific researches, as yet unequalled for truthfulness and extent--the originator and discoverer of much of that learned lore, which, with modesty unparalleled, he has allowed his more energetic and more ambitious compagnon de voyage to have credit for Though no name sounds more agreeably to my ears than that of Aime Bonpland, I cannot here dwell upon it, nor write his biography, however congenial the theme. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • In these parts I know only one person who carries that cognomen--one Charles Clancy. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • His size was strongly in contrast to his cognomen--for his age he was one of the smallest fellows I ever saw. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
  • As this chaste cognomen was artistically incompatible with his squint eye, his militant swagger, and a general bearing of unrepressed hostility toward all created beings, he was professionally known as "Bim." —  The Clarion
  • "Doubtless when I first became a member of the faculty the appellation, or, let me see, is it an appellation or a cognomen, as you commonly have heard it Yes, sir," Will managed to respond It is, then, as I fawncied, and doubtless was bestowed upon me as indicative of my lack of avoirdupois. —  Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin cognōmen : co-, con-, co- (influenced by cognōscere, to know) + nōmen, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin cognomen, from co-, together, + gnomen, old form of nomen = English name, q. v. Cf. agnomen, prenomen, noun, pronoun, renown.
 

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/kɑgˈnoʊmɛn/
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