(n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
(n.) A surname.
Example Sentences:
(1) Childish amusement in punning on cognomens may be an even greater stimulant for learning than visual configurations or artificial cognitive devices.
(2) The obligate, one-carbon, methane-methanol bacteria are considered as "methyl" utilizers, and the prefix "Methylo-" is suggested as a solution to the problem of generic cognomens.
(3) 1988 marks the centenary of the cognomen "tetralogy of Fallot".
Soubriquet
Definition:
(n.) See Sobriquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Driving to meet Steve Horton, a US tax accountant whose clients include bankers, entrepreneurs and high-flying American lawyers based in France, the taxi driver passes Fouquet's, the expensive restaurant where Sarkozy inadvisedly celebrated his own election victory, in company with pop star Johnny Hallyday, film star Jean Reno and high-flying businessmen, prompting the coining of the soubriquet President Bling Bling.
(2) Many local anti-Ukip protests are galvanised by a tiny, loud woman who goes by the soubriquet Bunny La Roche and who last December lambasted Farage from the audience on Question Time , her blue hair and cries of “racist scumbag” making a lasting impression.
(3) Waiting for fares by the newly opened Malmaison hotel, on Dundee’s sparkling £1bn waterfront redevelopment, taxi driver Ian Higgins has no doubt about the outcome of May’s general election: “I think it will be an SNP landslide and it will maybe wake up the politicians down in London who all seem to be out for themselves.” The 62-year-old voted for the very first time in last autumn’s referendum and voted for independence, along with 57.3% of his fellow Dundonians, earning it the soubriquet “Yes City”.
(4) That's a soubriquet he is going to hate, not least because it is a label with history.
(5) Financial fair play”, a somewhat toe-curling soubriquet, and not one associated with Fifa, was introduced in 2010 , requiring top European clubs to staunch their losses from paying excessive players wages.
(6) Already, Keighley has won the soubriquet of "racial hotspot" but it could become much worse.
(7) I am sure I will gather some more epithets and soubriquets along the way".
(8) Charlie Stuart, originally from Banff in Aberdeenshire, is one of the thousands of Scots who have settled in the Northamptonshire town since the steel boom of the 1930s, helping to earn it the soubriquet of "Little Scotland".
(9) Her only concession to the Treasury was to withdraw free school milk for seven- to 11-year-olds, a gift to political opponents (who skilfully conjured the image of a woman withholding her teats from babies) that earned her the soubriquet "milk-snatcher".
(10) In more recent cases, the super-injunction soubriquet has been applied when the courts have decided that the identity of the person requesting the gag cannot be published.
(11) Arguably that’s because his confidence can come over as arrogance: “Smart Alex” was not a soubriquet born of love.