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The names that developed as part of this system became a defining characteristic of Roman civilization, and although the system itself vanished during the Early Middle Ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive in modern languages.
This is a list of Roman nomina. The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen and claiming descent from a common ancestor. Over centuries, a gens could expand from a single family to a large clan, potentially including hundreds or even thousands of members.
Exceptions should include the most famous Romans, who are frequently known by only part of their names, as above, and the Roman emperors, as below. Romans whose names were changed due to adoption should appear under their most familiar names. Under the Empire, many prominent individuals had long, "polyonymous" nomenclatures, frequently ...
Empresses bearing pagan names—e.g. Aelia Eudocia, formerly Athenaïs—were renamed to have more Christian names, sometimes for an earlier empress. A few empresses such as Theodora, wife of Justinian, were also allegedly renamed. Late Byzantine empresses bore Greek names since the principal language of the Byzantine Empire was not Latin but ...
Roman tribe; References This page was last edited on 22 January 2025, at 01:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Manius Acilius Glabrio - consul and general during the Roman-Seleucid War [34] Manius Acilius Glabrio - consul and general during the Third Mithridatic War [ 35 ] Marcus Acilius Glabrio - consul and proconsular governor of Africa [ 36 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
An agnomen (Latin: [aŋˈnoːmɛn]; pl.: agnomina), in the Roman naming convention, was a nickname, just as the cognomen had been initially. However, the cognomina eventually became family names, and so agnomina were needed to distinguish between similarly-named persons.