Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A first or given name.
- noun The first name of a citizen of ancient Rome, as Gaius in Gaius Julius Caesar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the ancient Romans, a name prefixed to the family name, answering to the modern Christian or personal name, as Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.
- noun In zoology, the generic name, or name of the genus to which a species belongs, which invariably precedes the specific or trivial name in the binomial system of nomenclature. Thus, Felis is the prænomen in the term Felis leo, which is the technical name of the lion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our
Christian name , as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient
Roman first name .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This, called the praenomen, was conferred on the child when a babe with a ceremony not unlike that of our baptism.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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This, called the praenomen, was conferred on the child when a babe with a ceremony not unlike that of our baptism.
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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Firstly Sentina can be securely formed from the combination of praenomen Sentiie TLE 113: Senties 'of Sentiie' plus the suffix of appurtenance -na.
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Firstly Sentina can be securely formed from the combination of praenomen Sentiie TLE 113: Senties 'of Sentiie' plus the suffix of appurtenance -na.
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This praenomen is in turn attributable to the attested Latin name Sentius.
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This praenomen is in turn attributable to the attested Latin name Sentius.
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*Vanalas may be understood as "of Venel praenomen".
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Metellus is an unhappy choice of name then, because not only is a cognomen used as praenomen, but it's also one of those cognomen closely associated with one powerful family.
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Vanalas may be understood as "of Venel praenomen".
Nouns modifying nouns in Etruscan and related languages 2009
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Of course this is possible, especially considering that Etruscans did make use of abbreviations normally for the praenomen of the deceased in funerary inscriptions.
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