Sentences with cognomen
cog·no·men
C c - Galaxy's tough, brawling style earned him the cognomen, ‘The Thai Tyson’ and his record certainly shows a man who dominated his division.
- A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books.
- Scipio received the cognomen Africanus and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph.
- ‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
- The first revolver bearing the cognomen LadySmith was the Model M Hand Ejector of 1902.
- Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
- With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.