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Roman naming conventions. Over the course of some fourteen centuries, the Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of a combination of personal and family names. Although conventionally referred to as the tria nomina, the ...
Gaius (/ ˈɡaɪəs /), feminine Gaia, is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, and was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. [1] The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gens Gavia. The name was regularly abbreviated C., based on the original spelling, Caius, which dates ...
Praenomen. The praenomen (Classical Latin: [prae̯ˈnoːmɛn]; plural: praenomina) was a personal name chosen by the parents of a Roman child. It was first bestowed on the dies lustricus (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the birth of a boy. The praenomen would then be formally conferred a ...
Adelina (given name) Adina (given name) Adriana. Alexandra. Alina. Amalia (given name) Ana (given name) Anamaria. Anastasia.
Valeria (given name) Categories: Names by country. Culture of ancient Rome. Latin words and phrases. Prosopography of ancient Rome.
List of Roman cognomina. Roman gentes of Etruscan origin. Roman gentes of Hernician origin. Roman gentes of Latin origin from Alba Longa. Roman gentes of Latin origin from Praeneste. Roman gentes of Latin origin from Tibur. Roman gentes of Latin origin from Tusculum. Roman gentes of Picentine origin. Roman gentes of Sabine origin.
Romanian male given names end in a consonant (Adrian, Ion, Paul, Ștefan, Victor) or in any vowel other than -a (Alexandru, Andrei, Mihai), with some exceptions (Mircea, Mihnea), while almost all female names end in -a (Ana, Elena, Ioana, Maria), with only very few exceptions such as Carmen.
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.