Cognomina

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cognomina
       See {cognomen}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cognomen


       n 1: a familiar name  for a person (often a shortened version of
            a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his
            nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's
            nickname was Slim" [syn: {nickname}, {moniker}, {sobriquet},
             {soubriquet}]
       2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as
          distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: {surname},
           {family name}, {last name}]
       [also: {cognomina} (pl)]