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cognominal

adj
/kɒɡˈnɒmɪnəl/

Etymology

From the stem of Latin cognōmen (“cognomen: additional name or nickname; (any) name”) + -al.

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a cognomen.

  2. A name (sometimes especially one's cognomen or family name).

    • […] Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name not yet ranked with Hume, and Gibbon, and Robertson, very fortunately for those who have an antipathy to Dutch cognominals, but which, we venture to foretel, will be held in esteem,
    • POSY MAY: (Grins at HESTER.) I was borned in May, de month of posies. My full cognominal is Posy May Purdy.

  3. Bearing the same name.

    • ... is the pole cognominal with the pole of the magnet; and inasmuch as the cognominal poles of magnets repel each other, so are we to conceive this one also as repelled by the pole of the magnet.
    • the fact that the two men are cognominal is a mere coincidence.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. One bearing the same name.

      • Different-named Fractions, reduced to cognominals, or Same-named [Fractions], and withall added and Subducted.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA