cognominal

• IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnɒmɪnəl/, /kəɡˈnɒmɪnəl/

From the stem of Latin cognōmen (“cognomen”) +‎ -al.

cognominal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a cognomen.
   • 1993, Michael Harney, Kinship and Polity in the Poema de Mío Cid, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     the cognomen, indicator par excellence of the stable, geographically localized, diachronically perpetuated lineage, is an emblem of patrilineal prestige. The poem's invidious perception of the cognomen is reflected in the frequent repetition of the toponym associated with the Cid's foes: "Carrión." Used 135 times (versus 22 examples for Vivar), the name occurs in most instances as a component of the cognominal formula "iffantes de Carrión" with the cognomen "de Carrión" appearing far more frequently than the patronym González 

cognominal (plural cognominals)

1. Name (sometimes especially one's cognomen or family name).
   • 1821, The Edinburgh Monthly Review, page 232:

     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,

   • 1836, John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours:

     On reference to Clarkson's History of Richmond, compiled chiefly from Gale's Register Honorum Richmondæ, it appears that a charter of Alan, fourth Earl of Richmond, is witnessed in 1145, among others, by THEOBALD and by BALDWIN, and another similar charter in the subsequent year by Baldwin de Multon (Malton), in Richmondshire, the patrimony of the Earls of Richmond. Baldwin would thus appear to have been connected with the Earls of Richmond, as holding lands under them, prior to the appearance of the name in connexion with Scottish record; and, although the occurrence of even one of those uncommon names, THEOBALD or BALDWIN, on record in England, at a period so immediately preceding its first appearance in Scotland, would lead to infer the probable identity of the individual bearing the appellation, that identity may surely be assumed as resting upon sufficient grounds when two individuals of such remarkable cognominals (from the same country) can thus be traced in mutual transactions in both kingdoms. And if the connexion thus apparent between Baldwin and the Earl of Richmond can be shown to have extended itself more intimately on the part of Baldwin with the family of Crawfurd, which, in ignorance of the present adduced facts, we have already traced on entirely distinct grounds to those earls as its source,

   • 1940, Jay Tobias, Gangway for Ghosts: A Mystery Comedy in Three Acts:

     POSY MAY: (Grins at HESTER.) I was borned in May, de month of posies. My full cognominal is Posy May Purdy.

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From Latin cognōminis (“having the same name”) +‎ -al.

cognominal (plural cognominals)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) One bearing the same name.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “That All Animals of the Land, Are in Their Kinde in the Sea”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , London: T H for Edward Dod, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 170:

     And therefore although it be not denied that ſome in the water doe carry a juſtifiable reſemblance to ſome at the Land, yet are the major part which beare their names unlike; nor doe they otherwiſe reſemble the creatures on earth, then they on earth the conſtellations which paſſe under animall names in heaven: nor the Dog-fiſh at ſea much more make out the Dog of the land, then that his cognominall or name-ſake in the heavens.

   • 1649, R. B. (Mr. of Arts.), Arithmetick Symbolical in one Book. By R. B. Mr. of Arts. In which the mystery of numeration by symbols is revealed, page 17:

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

   • 1805, Titus Lucretius Carus, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem, page 222:

     He was probably possessed of vast muscular strength, as well as undaunted courage: whence his name has been proverbially applied, through every successive age, to the possessor of the same qualities; in consequence of which, it is not improbable that, in many instances, the exploits of his cognominals or descendants have been attributed to himself. He must have existed, however, and have been deified at a very early period of the world, for we find traditions concerning him almost as early as those of Jupiter Ammon 

cognominal (not comparable)

1. Having the same name.
   • 1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Principia: Or, The First Principles of Natural Things, Being New Attempts Toward a Philosophical Explanation of the Elementary World, page 15:

     ... 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.

   • 1892, William Gilbert, On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies: And on the Great Magnet the Earth, page 296:

     Divide any arc of revolution into 90 equal parts from the terminus of the arcs of revolution to the pole; for whatever the degree of latitude of the place, that part of the arc of revolution is to be reckoned as cognominal to it which the magnetic pole in rotating upon or around terrella or earth regards: in the large diagram that follows, this is indicated by the right lines.

   • 1992, Marvin J. Heller, Printing the Talmud: A History of the Earliest Printed Editions of the Talmud, Brooklyn, N.Y. : Im Hasefer:

     the fact that the two men are cognominal is a mere coincidence.

   • 2006, Chris G. Kruse, Thinking about Cognition: Concepts, Targets and Therapeutics, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     My cognomen is Whitehouse, or wise guy, and I am formally cognominal with the residence of some who is not so wise.

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