Meaning Of The Word Agnomen

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agnomen in American English
in ancient Rome, a name added to the cognomen, esp. as an epithet honoring some achievement
noun: an additional, fourth name given to a person by the ancient Romans in allusion to some achievement or other circumstance, as “Africanus” in “Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.”

agnomen in British English
noun: the fourth name or second cognomen occasionally acquired by an ancient Roman

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