PRAENOMEN
\pɹˈiːnə͡ʊmˌɛn], \pɹˈiːnəʊmˌɛn], \p_ɹ_ˈiː_n_əʊ_m_ˌɛ_n]\
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[L.] Among the Latins, the name which distinguished the individual from his gens or clan and his family, the former of these two coming between the praenomen and the latter which was called the cognomen. Sometimes a fourth name, called agnomen, marked some characteristic feature or fact. Thus in Publius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Publius is the praenomen, Cornelius the gentile, and Scipio the family name, the agnomen Barbatus distinguishing him by his beard. So Fr. prenom, Christian name.
By Henry Percy Smith
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Snake's-head
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